Ryan started his career in the field of Biomechanics & Mechanical engineering. While writing applications to analyse human movement at the University of Calgary’s Human Performance Lab he decided to pursue software development full time. He is a full stack developer & cloud architect with years of experience working with large scale scientific computing, designing system architecture, and deploying cloud native applications.  He leads a multidisciplinary team of specialists from software engineering, devops, data science, GIS, hydraulics, hydrology, and computational fluid dynamics and steers them toward a common goal. Reducing the human and economic cost of flooding to zero, is an ambitious but necessary goal, and it requires some of the world’s brightest minds and hardest working hands.  When not working, which is rare these days, he can be found skiing, hiking, climbing, or paragliding, in either his home country of Canada or current home in Queensland.