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About Me

Ryan is a Distinguished Engineer in Product Engineering at VMware by Broadcom. He and his team are responsible for architecture, design, and engineering of the 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 enabling customers and the community to accelerate and simplify their private cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure and automation services.

Ryan is a co-author of the Sybex/Wiley Mastering vSphere 6.7 in which he collaborated with his fellow Solution Architects on the VMware Validated Designs team.

Open Source Projects

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

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

• Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere
  External Collaborator with Hashicorp | github.com/hashicorp
  

• Packer Plugin for VMware
  External Collaborator 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
  

Publications

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

Certifications & Accreditations

• Github Certified, GitHub Foundations [Verify]
• Microsoft Certified, Azure Fundamentals [Verify]
• Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Associate [Verify]
• Amazon Web Service Certified Cloud Practitioner [Verify]
• HashiCorp Core Contributor 2022 [Verify] for Terraform and Packer
• 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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