Ryan Parman

Technologist and Entrepreneur

Founder and visionary behind SimplePie and Tarzan, co-founder of WarpShare, and member of the RSS Advisory Board. Recognized leader in syndication and cloud computing software, open source evangelist, and passionate usability advocate.

Professional Bio

Ryan Parman is the creator and co-developer of SimplePie — a very fast and easy-to-use PHP software library that has substantially lowered the barrier-to-entry for developers to access information held in blogs and other RSS feeds. Under his direction, SimplePie has been hailed as one of the best software libraries available for managing RSS and Atom feeds, and is quickly gaining raving fans all over the world for its simplicity and ease of use.

Ryan is also the co-founder of LifeNexus Digital, a startup in the digital media space that is developing a new service called WarpShare — a viable commercial solution that solves the ever-increasing rift between labels, studios, advertisers, and digital media consumers like you and me.

Ryan was the lead developer behind the Spring '08 re-launch of the Yahoo! Messenger website, which is one of Yahoo's top properties. He also had his 15 minutes of fame as the web developer who — to the excitement of tens of thousands of web developers from all over the world — packaged the standalone versions of Internet Explorer into the easy to use bundles that Evolt's browser archive, Quirksmode, and Tredosoft are currently distributing.

Ryan's background is as a front-end web developer with substantial experience with web standards, layered semantic markup, working with web services, and content syndication and aggregation. He is driven by taking technology — no matter how geeky — thinking about how it could be useful to people (such as himself, his wife, his parents, his kids), and find some way to bring it down to a more "human" level. He is experienced with organic SEO methods, front-end performance tuning, and usability and user-centered design principles.

Ryan lives in California's Silicon Valley with his wife and kids, is a Christian and a prefectionist, has a very snarky and sarcastic sense of humor, has an INFJ personality type, and doesn't vote down party lines.