About

Built by people who’ve
turned the wrenches

The opportunity isn’t smarter diagnostics — it’s making the entire maintenance operation coherent. Wastegate turns institutional knowledge and luck into a single, compliance-aware system of record.

The mission

Make the entire operation coherent

The opportunity isn’t smarter diagnostics — it’s making the entire maintenance operation coherent. Wastegate turns institutional knowledge and luck into a single, compliance-aware system of record.

The founders

Meet the team behind Wastegate Technologies, LLC

Cliff Ryan

Founder & CEO — USMC veteran

Aviation Maintenance Instructor and Technician with 35 years in the industry who has owned a shop and a flight school. Built the platform end to end — a domain expert, not a software company guessing at the domain.

Rebecca Ryan, MBA

Co-Founder — service-disabled Navy veteran

20 years in business operations and management (ERA Helicopters, Ford). Serial founder who has started and run several businesses alongside Cliff.

Veteran-owned

Veteran-owned and SDVOSB-eligible — opening federal set-aside contracting.

The market

A large, underserved market

$29.9B
U.S. MRO market (2026)
3,558
U.S. MRO businesses
$7.5–8B
MRO-software market
35%
of small shops use anything beyond Excel

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