Ryan is a Distinguished Engineer in Product Engineering at Broadcom in the VMware Cloud Foundation Division. He and his team are responsible for the architecture, design, and engineering of VMware Validated Solutions and VMware Cloud Foundation.

His primary focus is on private and public cloud platforms, cloud automation, and identity and access management. As an accomplished solutions architect, his focus is on enabling customers and the community to accelerate and simplify their private cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure and automation services.

• Terraform Provider for VMware vSphere
  Maintainer in collaboration with HashiCorp | github.com/hashicorp

• Terraform Provider for VMware Cloud Foundation
  Co-maintainer | github.com/hashicorp

• Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere
  Maintainer in collaboration with HashiCorp | github.com/hashicorp

• Packer Examples for VMware vSphere
  Creator and Maintainer | github.com/vmware-samples

• Packer Plugin for VMware
  Maintainer in collaboration with HashiCorp | github.com/hashicorp

• PowerShell Module for VMware Validated Solutions
  Co-maintainer | github.com/vmware-samples

• PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation
  Co-maintainer | github.com/vmware

• PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Reporting
  Co-maintainer | github.com/vmware

• PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Password Management
  Co-maintainer | github.com/vmware

• Photon OS Packer Templates
  Maintainer | github.com/vmware/photon-packer-templates

• Mastering vSphere 6.7, Wiley Sybex, 2018
  Contributing Author, Chapters 11, 12, and 14
  Amazon Author Profile

• Managing L4 Ports, US 20230021019 A1, Issued 2023-01-19
  Co-inventor with Carlos Phoenix
  Transforming ports (L4) from passive conduits of data into security-aware code ("software defined") that have the ability to securely configure themselves so that applications and network traffic are actively secured.

• GitHub Certified, GitHub Foundations [Verify]
• Microsoft Certified, Azure Fundamentals [Verify]
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate [Verify]
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner [Verify]
• HashiCorp Core Contributor 2022 [Verify]
• HashiCorp Certified, Terraform Associate [Verify]
• VMware vExpert 2013-2022 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Implementation Expert, Data Center Virtualization 2021 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Implementation Expert, Network Virtualization 2020 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional, Data Center Virtualization Design 2020 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional, Network Virtualization Design 2020 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional, Cloud Management and Automation Design 7 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Professional, Data Center Virtualization 2021 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Professional, Network Virtualization 2021 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Professional, Cloud Management and Automation 2022 [Verify]
• VMware Certified Specialist, Cloud Foundation 2020 [Verify]
• VMware NSX-T Data Center Security 2021 [Verify]
• Dell Technologies Cloud Architect Cloud Services Expert [Verify]
• American Red Cross Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED

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