Summary
Ryan Boren is a retired technologist and co-founder who brings 22 years of engineering experience to his role as Creative Director at Stimpunks, an organization he helped create to provide mutual aid, living wages, and research for neurodivergent and disabled communities. He played a key role in building cornerstone web platforms—Automattic.com, WordPress.com, WordPress.org, and WordCamp.org—combining deep product and engineering chops with a long history in internet-scale publishing. Grounded in equity literacy, digital sociology, and the social model of disability, he now focuses on design for real life, open source education tech, and advocacy that presumes competence and self-determination. Based in Dripping Springs, Texas, Ryan blends systems-level technical experience from companies like Cisco and Alcatel with grassroots community organizing, making accessibility and neurodiversity central to sustainable product design.
22 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas