About Ryn

Ryn Daniels is a platform infrastructure engineer who got their start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when GeoCities was still cool. Their work focuses on infrastructure operability, sustainable on-call practices, and the design of effective and empathetic engineering cultures. They are the co-author of O’Reilly’s Effective DevOps and have spoken at numerous industry conferences on devops engineering and culture topics. Ryn lives in Helsinki, Finland with a perfectly reasonable number of cats and in their spare time can often be found painting, playing their six-string violin, or knitting server koozies for the data center.

Please note that the use of they/them pronouns in my bio is intentional. I am non-binary and do not use he/him or she/her pronouns.