About
Ryan Oksenhorn is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Zipline, the pioneering autonomous drone delivery company he helped launch in 2014 alongside Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek, and William Hetzler—pivoting from their prior robotics startup Romotive. A Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate (BS, 2012), Oksenhorn has led Zipline's software development, including cloud systems for geospatial routing, weather integration, inventory, and airspace management, as well as flight software for perception, navigation, and controls. Under his technical contributions, Zipline has scaled to over one million deliveries of medical supplies, vaccines, and consumer goods worldwide, expanded U.S. operations with partners like Walmart, and achieved a multi-billion-dollar valuation while advancing instant, emissions-free logistics.