Ryan Rhea · Software Engineer · Portland, OR
From idea
to shipped.
Native Apple apps, the Python and Go services behind them, and the hardened Linux infrastructure they run on. Thirty years in, still shipping, now faster than ever.
$ ls recent/
Shipped, not just started.
Ad Zap ↗
Privacy-first Safari content blocker, live on the App Store. One-step setup, no telemetry, no special permissions.
Feedpunk ↗
AI-driven daily news briefing: ~500 articles across ~15 sources, organized by topic and summarized through a multi-model routing layer.
Quot ↗
Native stock quotes for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, backed by a FastAPI service with multi-provider failover and intelligent caching.
curb ↗
HTTPS-only curl alternative in pure Go. Its vet mode screens shell installers through security sieves before a single byte reaches a shell. On Homebrew.
pdq
Minimal single-binary web server: automatic HTTPS, TLS 1.3 only, an SSL Labs A score with zero configuration. Serves multiple domains from one tiny config file.
$ man ryan
What I do well.
Apple platforms, end to end
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit. Apps, extensions, content blockers, custom keyboards. A decade of App Store releases, code signing, and App Review battle scars.
Go, Python, and Bash
Go when the answer should be one static binary. Python since 2006, Bash since the 1990s. FastAPI for services, SQLite for state, systemd for units.
AI as engineering infrastructure
Multi-model orchestration in shipped products (Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Gemini) with my own routing and tool-use layers. A daily agentic coding practice is how one engineer moves like a small team.
Real systems, kept boring
From one of Google's first custom datacenters to DNS, certificates, and cloud provisioning at HPE. A personal fleet of hardened VPS hosts, provisioned end-to-end by Ansible.
Private by default.
Everything I ship collects no telemetry, requests minimum permissions, and runs as much as possible on the device or my own infrastructure. It is a posture, not a feature.
- 30
- years of professional engineering practice
- #11
- employee at Meridian, now part of HPE
- 2008
- Impact Award from Google's Executive Management Group
HPE · Aruba Networks · Meridian · Google · Portland Art Museum. The full history, with dates and details, is on the resume.
$ whoami --hire
Open to full-time or consulting.
If you need someone who can take a product from idea to shipped, or keep existing systems running and reliable, let's talk.