I build bridges between the systems we create and the humans they forget.
Book Ryan →Not a metaphor. Twenty years of software engineering, a brain that was diagnosed at 41, and a 240,720-node cognitive infrastructure that turns lived experience into queryable intelligence.
Keynotes, advisory, and accessibility audits. I find where your system breaks people, and I hand you the build order.
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Accessible software, custom builds, and the tools I use myself. I catch the friction before your users file the ticket.
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Seven times, a system failed me. Seven times, it became a project.
Not because I'm extraordinary. Because when systems fail you repeatedly, you either build a door or you don't get through. Autistic, ADHD, dyslexic — diagnosed at 41, after four decades of building workarounds without knowing that's what they were. Every one of those workarounds was information. Most of them turned into software.
Design for the average and you build a thing that fits nobody.
In 1950 the Air Force built a cockpit for the average pilot. Gilbert Daniels measured 4,063 of them and found that zero were average on all ten dimensions. They'd built for a man who did not exist, and pilots were dying in it. The fix wasn't a better average. It was a seat that moves.
The Overlap is six steps. You start with whoever is carrying the most at once, you build from where the system breaks them, and you grow it outward until it covers everybody. Curb cuts. Captions. Voice control. Every one of them arrived this way.
The most authentic speaker we have ever booked.
Ryan is a pattern-thinker who sees what the rest of us miss.
He found in one afternoon what our audit missed in six months.
New ideas start where identities overlap.
The Overlap: six steps to build things that work for everybody. [VERIFY title]
The method, the 4,063-pilot proof, and the one-page card your team can run on Monday. No form beyond an email.
One email when something ships.
New episodes, new tools, new writing. No drip sequence, no "quick question." Unsubscribe is one click and nobody asks why.
Not inspiration. Infrastructure.
Keynotes, advisory, and audits for teams that want the build order, not the awareness session.