---
title: "Ryan Dahl"
category: "people"
role: "CEO"
company: "Deno"
twitter: "https://x.com/rough__sea"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Ryan Dahl

## Profile
CEO at [[deno|Deno]].

- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/rough__sea)

## Biography
Ryan Dahl is a programmer and the creator of Node.js and co-founder of [[deno|Deno]]. Born in California in the early 1980s, he studied mathematics at the University of Rochester before pursuing graduate work in algebraic topology at UC San Diego. In 2009 he created Node.js, which brought JavaScript to the server and reshaped how a generation of developers builds software. He later spent time at Google Brain researching early generative image models, and in 2018 co-founded [[deno|Deno]], a modern, secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-ryan-dahl-security-firewall-for-agents]] — Security Firewall for Agents (2026-06-29, 10:45am-11:05am)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-ryan-dahl-security-firewall-for-agents|Security Firewall for Agents]]

### Media Signals
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