About

I am an opin­ion­ated (and occa­sion­ally bel­liger­ent) sys­tem 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…

I roam the land, liv­ing only to design and build web infra­struc­ture capa­ble of with­stand­ing a dig­ging, a fire­balling, or a slash­dot­ting (if those still hap­pen?). Once, one of my stacks even sur­vived a go-round on 4Chan's /b/ board… but only once.

A short sum­mary of work his­tory and idio­syn­crasies follows.

Pre­vi­ous to my cur­rent role at an engi­neer­ing soft­ware com­pany, I also worked for a hard­core record label's 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 jew­ish bakery.

I really miss that bakery.

While employed by the cable com­pany I ran an inde­pen­dent web host­ing busi­ness 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. As a side project I main­tain the infra­struc­ture for a web host­ing co-operative, where we spe­cial­ize in Word­Press and Dru­pal admin­is­tra­tive upkeep.

As I've main­tained for going on ten years now, I prob­a­bly don't like your band and I am almost absolutely pos­i­tive that I don't like your friends.