Speaker: Ryan Scott Brown
Principal Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Red Hat, @Trek10, and @Vendia
Ryan Scott Brown is a Principal Engineer at Crunchyroll appearing in multiple engineering plot arcs. He has previously held Principal roles at Red Hat, Trek10, and Vendia. Ryan wrangled API design opinions as a member of the OpenStack API Working Group and later on Vendia's GraphQL schema tools.
He has abysmal handwriting. Why learn to write when keyboards are RIGHT THERE? Ryan has built and programmed his own keyboards as well as learned to use ErgoDox, Atreus, and most recently the Charachorder. Typing, after all, is just another protocol.
Session
The Schema Was Never Enough: The World in Protocols
Every reliable process in the world is a protocol: auctions, double-entry bookkeeping, brokerage account transfers, or APIs. Protocols reduce ambiguity but the world remains messy.
