About
I am a surly and opinionated web infrastructure administrator who moved to Massachusetts to work for a mid-sized engineering software company. It was a strategic decision.
I’m a strategic kind of guy. See?
Ryan McKern is a classy guy...
Before moving to Massachusetts I lived in Albany, NY. By lived, I mean “lived my whole life there”.
My principle interests are technology, specifically web infrastructure and file storage architecture, food and the cooking thereof, punk rock, ska, comic books, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. Find me at your favorite social networking site: MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Previous to my stint at a software company, I also worked for a hardcore record label and their merchandising arm, a regional headquarters for a small telecommunications/cable television company that you’ve probably never heard of, a handful of someone else’s failed dot-com startups, and a bakery. Nowadays I run Apache web servers on Linux hardware for a software company that was not started in a basement, garage, or under the purview of investment capitalists.
It is extremely safe to say that I miss the bakery.
While employed by the cable company I ran an independent web-host called Webslum with my cohort Matt Miller. Then we turned corporate, mortgaged our integrity for The Good Life™, and shut it down in the face of a consolidating and tumultuous market we couldn’t afford to play ball in.
I have taken a solemn vow to never work another job which requires me to wear shoes, slacks, a collared shirt, or a tie. There will be no loafers, hush puppies, or patent leather anything in my professional future. My daily work attire is dirty jeans, dirty sneakers, a disheveled t-shirt
and a zip-up hooded sweatshirt. Maybe a bit of stylish haberdashery if the mood takes me.
My girlfriend and I have two cats. That doesn’t make me less of a man.
I probably don’t like your band. I am almost definitely maybe positive that I don’t like your friends.