About

Howdy, I’m Ryan.

I’m an engineer based out of Denver, Colorado. I consider myself a product obsessed nerd that enjoys building software systems that are scalable and human maintanable.

This site is a collection of my thoughts and musings about:

• AI Literacy
• Software Engineering
• Building Tools for the Good of Humans
• Music

I get extra excited when more than one of those topics come together in a project that lets me utilize my top skills:

• Communicating complex ideas in a shared language
• Refactoring legacy systems for the future needs
• Bringing a team together and enabling their individual super powers

Most of these posts are to help future me remember the struggle and pains I have already paid to set something up, but if that also helps someone else out there jump forward in their project that’s even better! I do not beleive in “best practices” since that implies a terminal state of improvement. I prefer to learn “leading practices” and force myself to recognize that I cannot know all of the things.

When I am not working on something techincal, I am usually escaping in a movie, TV show, or playing music (trombone, bass, guitar). I also love exploring the mountains, kayaking or playing in the water, and drinking beer with friends.

You can find the source code for Jekyll at GitHub: jekyll / jekyll