Maintaining code repos and my sense of humor; no matter how hot the trenches may get.

I've spent 24 years automating myself out of jobs. Now I'm teaching AI to help. The irony isn't lost on me.

I learn best by teaching, so I wrote sudo-make-me-a-developer—a guide for people who want to get started with AI-assisted coding but don't know where to begin.

• sudo-make-me-a-developer — Beginner-friendly bootcamp for AI-assisted coding
• cuda-wsl-installer — Automated CUDA setup for WSL2 with benchmarks and a high scores leaderboard (my 1080ti thanks me)
• peasant.free — Building an everything app (free as in freedom, not free beer), starting with an AI-powered "build your budget" tool
• CarWreckAZ.com — Lead-gen site I built for a friend's law firm
• Home/business lab — DevSecOps playground with SRE discipline baked in. Production-quality infrastructure on Proxmox.

SRE. DevOps. Platform Engineering. Whatever we're calling it this year.

I automate things, break things, fix things, and try to leave good documentation behind. Currently at the Federal Reserve. Moonlighting through After Hours IT, LLC (dba deployITall) since 2009—because I didn't want to be limited by just "IT". I wanted to deploy it all.

deployitall.com · LinkedIn · chris.ryan@deployitall.com

Queen Creek, AZ · Remote-first

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family is everything
🏒 Ice hockey with the Kilroys Hockey Club (Peoria, AZ)
🚗 Restoring a '70 Chevelle SS396, '83 K5 Blazer, '69 Coronet R/T, and '68 Charger. My wife's '77 C10 got the LS swap.
🏜️ Offroading
🎧 Anjunabeats family (Above & Beyond, always)
🥁 Drummer since high school
🎮 Classic EverQuest on Project 1999 Green
🔧 Legitimately addicted to learning—any hobby I pick up, I take way too far

The home lab isn't a hobby, it's a lifestyle.