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Hi, I'm Ryan 👋

I help companies ship products in environments where security, compliance, reliability, and cost discipline matter. I work from product definition through production release, combining hands-on engineering with strong delivery mechanics and operational controls.

My workflow emphasizes automation, parallel execution, and structured guardrails. I use AI deliberately to increase throughput and reduce friction, while keeping verification, observability, and change control central to the process. The goal is simple: higher output without sacrificing correctness or long-term maintainability.

Focus areas:

  • Product definition and technical strategy
  • AI-augmented engineering and structured automation
  • Distributed systems and platform architecture
  • CI/CD pipelines with enforced quality gates
  • Observability, reliability, and incident response
  • Security, compliance, and audit-ready change management
  • Infrastructure design and cost control

🚀 Current Projects

  • 🌙 Moonrise Labs - Technical leadership and agentic engineering for startups in energy, finance, and healthcare
  • 🤖 Emma - An LLM-powered conversational Reachy Mini app for my daughter
  • 🎙️ sotto - Local-first speech-to-text CLI using NVIDIA Riva + NVIDIA Parakeet to rapidly transcribe raw speech into text
  • 🗣️ koko - Local Kokoro-82M text-to-speech CLI
  • 🔊 pi-notify-koko - Koko voice notifications for Pi agent turn completion
  • 🔔 pi-notify-desktop - OSC desktop notifications for Pi agent turn completion
  • 📊 waybar-modules - Collection of all my Waybar modules
  • ❄️ nixos-config - Nix configuration for NixOS and macOS

🛠️ Current Stack

🔄 Workflow

🏠 Home Lab