I am a human being.

Ryan Etten is a Principal Solutions Architect at Broadcom, working at the intersection of cloud-native architecture and the human systems that sustain it. A Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect, he guides organizations through secure transformations built on Kubernetes, GitOps, and Zero Trust. Beyond the stack, he leads core initiatives in CNCF's Merge Forward Neurodiversity group and, through his "Agile for Every Brain" framework, works to refactor community structures for diverse cognitive styles. He founded MOSAIC — Madison's Open Source and AI Communities — and organizes the local CNCF and AAIF chapters and DevFest Wisconsin, on the conviction that the human architectures behind open source should be as resilient and scalable as the code.