Professional Staff

Ryan Baird, P.E.

Civil Engineer

“I’m a hydraulic engineer passionate about the protection and restoration of rivers and the ecological communities of which they support.”


Ryan is a civil engineer at Kleinschmidt with five years of industry experience. Ryan specializes in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling to support regulatory floodplain compliance studies, bridge scour analyses, and stream stabilization and restoration designs. He is also experienced in stormwater design and erosion and sedimentation control for roadways and site development projects. Ryan is also skilled with project design in Civil 3D, preparing construction drawings, bid packages, and construction oversite.

Ryan has experience in water resources engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and North Carolina. He holds a B.S. in Biological Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University.