Ryan works at the intersection of customer success, product engineering, and open source, helping organizations adopt cloud platforms with confidence. His career has moved between hands-on engineering leadership and direct customer engagement, but the through-line has always been the same: turning complex problems into practical, scalable systems that real teams can actually use. He maintains and contributes to open source projects across the Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Go, and PowerShell ecosystems, and is a two-time HashiCorp Core Contributor and long-standing VMware vExpert (2013–2026).

He writes at tenthirtyam.org - a collection of hypertext dispatches on technology, personal interests, and the occasional side quest. The writing tends to follow automation, open source craft, and the small decisions that shape how developers actually get things done. He publishes because someone else might be stuck on the same thing. Occasionally, something more personal slips in - a song, a story, or something he noticed on a long run.

 American Red Cross, Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED

 GitHub Certified, GitHub Foundations

 GitHub Certified, GitHub Actions

 GitHub Certified, GitHub CoPilot

 GitHub Certified, GitHub Advanced Security

 GitHub Certified, GitHub Administration

 GitLab Certified, Git Associate

 GitLab Certified, Project Management Associate

 GitLab Certified, CI/CD Associate

 HashiCorp Core Contributor 2025 (Terraform and Packer)

 HashiCorp Certified, Terraform Associate

 Microsoft Certified, Azure Fundamentals

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

 VMware vExpert 2013-2026

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (v9)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (v9)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Support (v9)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (v9)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Support (v9)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Architect 2024 (v5)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator 2024 (v5)

 VMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator 2024 (v5)

 VMware Certified Implementation Expert, Data Center Virtualization

 VMware Certified Implementation Expert, Network Virtualization

     More available on Credly.  

 Mastering vSphere 6.7, Wiley Sybex, 2018
 Chapters 11, 12, and 14

 Managing L4 Ports
     US 20230021019 A1, Issued 2023-01-19
     Co-inventor with Carlos Phoenix

 Nolan J. Johnson (nolanjjohnson.com).
    Developed with ❤️ for my son.
    Actor portfolio built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Vite.
    Uses Vercel serverless functions for the API and deployed on Vercel with GitHub CI/CD.

 Setup Task (go-task/task), Creator and Maintainer

 Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere, Maintainer

 Packer Plugin for VMware Desktop Hypervisors, Maintainer

 Packer Plugin for JFrog Artifactory (In Development), Creator and Maintainer

 Packer Examples for VMware vSphere, Creator and Maintainer

 Terraform Provider for VMware vSphere, Maintainer

 Terraform Provider for VMware Cloud Foundation, Maintainer

 Terraform Provider for VMware Cloud on AWS, Maintainer Emeritus

 Terraform Provider for VMware HCX, Maintainer Emeritus

 Terraform Provider for VMware Aria Automation, Maintainer Emeritus

 Terraform Provider for VMware NSX, Maintainer Emeritus

 go-vnc: Go library for the VNC client protocol, compliant with RFC 6143., Maintainer

 govmomi: Go library for the VMware vSphere API, Maintainer

 PowerShell Module for VMware Validated Solutions, Maintainer Emeritus

 PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation, Maintainer Emeritus

 PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Reporting, Maintainer Emeritus

 PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Password Management, Maintainer Emeritus

Ansible Collection for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, Developer and Maintainer
    Developed for a financial customer in my Customer Success role at Broadcom.

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