About Ryn

Ryn Daniels is an infrastructure engineer who got their start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when GeoCities was still cool. Their work has focused 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 cello, or handcrafting knitted 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.