Ryan Donofrio
Ryan Donofrio builds software, AI products, and games. He started in 2011, at age eight.
Apple has given him early access to unreleased hardware three times: the original Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and iPhone Duo. He shipped one of the first apps accepted into Apple's original Apple Watch developer program.
He has founded, co-founded, or invested in four companies: Blackbox, AllChat, AppFlight, and iQDigital. His work spans AI systems, native iOS apps, Roblox games, VR and AR, and the cloud backends behind them.
He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University and studied Immersive Media and Mixed Reality at Sacred Heart University.
Companies
- Blackbox A Roblox game studio with six live games, including 2 Player Evolution Tycoon, Steal a Fruit, and Anime Royale. Over 160M visits. Also Blackbox Charts, live player charts for every big Roblox game.
- AllChat Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity at once and get one verified answer. Live on iOS and the web. AllChat on the App Store
- AppFlight Builds native iOS apps from a prompt and takes them to the App Store, fixing Apple's rejections along the way. In beta.
- iQDigital An AI and software studio building agents, automations, and mobile apps for businesses. Founded 2023.
Experience
- Axial DigitalVR apps for healthcare and pharma clients, and an iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS app built with early access to Apple engineers. 2018 to now.
- MetaQA engineer consultant testing prototype hardware. 2024.
- MosaicVR training simulations in Unity and Azure with AI in the training pipeline. 2023.
- Sacred Heart University, NeXReality LabMultiplayer VR physics simulations that classes adopted in place of lab exercises. 2021 to 2023.
- MerckAn interactive VR experience on Oculus that showed medications to healthcare professionals. 2021.
Focus
AI and LLM systems, multi-model routing, native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, visionOS), Roblox (Luau), VR and AR in Unity, and cloud backends on Firebase, Google Cloud, and AWS.