Music, community,
and the things I make.

There’s more to me than the job title.

DJing and BTO Collective

I DJ as DJ Ramen and co-founded BTO Collective in 2017. My mixes live on SoundCloud, including an archived BTO set with nelle at the Brownies & Lemonade Block Party in San Francisco.

BTO brought EDM artists together for livestreams supporting charities and local communities. Those streams raised $20K for Toys for Tots, Stop AAPI Hate, and PPE for Southern California hospitals, as reported in my resume. I wrote about how the collective became a way to help our community through something we loved.

As Ramennodes, I write, record, and edit explainers about practical AI tasks. These are my own finished videos, from planning a trip with Claude to explaining what an agent does.

$20K raised

Through BTO charity livestreams for Toys for Tots, Stop AAPI Hate, and PPE for Southern California hospitals.

Fundraising figure reported in my resume.

DJ Ramen, Ramon Chanco, smiling and gesturing toward the camera
DJ Ramen. Outside the product work. My SoundCloud

Better together.

BTO started with friends helping each other get better at the thing we loved. The music brought us together. The people made it last.

Ramon with the BTO Collective artists and audience at their daytime festival in San Francisco
Better Than One, San Francisco. August 2024.Media: Aperture Live / Alex Hong
BTO Collective and the crowd at the Better Than One tour in Los Angeles
The Better Than One tour, Los Angeles. February 2020.From my original BTO story
Ramon and Bill hosting the Cyberverse charity livestream with Mimi Lee
Closing out Cyberverse with Bill and our live host, Mimi Lee.From my original BTO story
BTO on InstagramBTO on XBTO on SoundCloud

Selected mixes

Listen on SoundCloud

April 7, 2026

Take Note V (slide city nights)

Listen on my SoundCloud profile.

Listen to the mix

October 22, 2018

BTO Live: DJ Ramen x nelle @ Brownies & Lemonade Block Party SF

An archived live set on BTO’s official SoundCloud.

Listen to the mix

Read my story about helping your community through what you love

Out in the world.

Coverage of the products and communities
I’ve helped build.

Making practical AI understandable

Through Ramennodes, I turn what I’m learning into finished explainers. Scripts, visuals, narration, and editing all serve one job: make the idea easier to understand.

Original AI brand film; authored constraints shown in the project narrative.

A visual world with rules for motion

I developed the Spock character, reference keyframes, and motion prompts for Bassline’s website hero.

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