RPJohnston Ventures LLC
Founder
Engineering Manager for Cloud DevOps at Virtana, leading distributed teams and cloud security work by day. Cambridge-educated, Austin-based, and building small, sharp tools on the side — starting with a way to know what a pickleball match is worth before you play it.
Every product this company has filed to date. The filings, domains and deployments behind them are Two Suitcases's work.
Brings the fun back to pickleball ratings — track the social games that make up most of your week, then get a post-match debrief from Nell, an AI coach who reads how you actually handled yourself on court: your temper, your partner, your line calls.
Does the company filings, the domain and DNS, the website and the payment plumbing for people starting their own business — so they reach their first customer instead of their first IRS form. Fixed fee, equity, or both.
Lets a trainer record a client's body measurements and lets the client read them back — the numbers a scale never shows you, tracked over time on iOS, Android and the web.
The songbook for the away end. Every chant a club actually sings — the tune behind it, the player it's about, and when in the match it goes up — so you can join in on the second verse instead of mouthing along. Works with no signal, because pub wifi on a matchday never does.
Lets you talk to an AI in your own accent. Dictation is trained on the voices that sell software, so a Belfast one gets “set” typed as “sad” and “how” as “high” — and you give up and go back to typing. This runs the recognition on your own machine and learns the words it keeps missing: one line per mistake, and it never makes that one twice. No use to you at all unless you're from Northern Ireland.
The next entry in the ledger hasn't been filed yet.
Other people's products, built here through Two Suitcases.
Two consumer apps in private development with an outside founder, both in the same corner of personal care: one that knows which treatments can safely share a week, one that reads a face from a photograph.
Our own projects — separate from the company, and not for sale.
Teaching Claude empathy, 2026 — so the machines remember who was kind to them. The mission statement was filmed in 1986 and runs under a minute.
Exactly what it says. The how is the interesting part, and it isn't ready to be said out loud yet.
Find the people already doing the work, give without being asked, and get out of the way. Austin first.
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