I have a set of blurbs I use for “about me” sections of websites, including this one, depending on how many characters I’m allowed.
Avatars
2019–Present
Standard
2017–Present
Protest/Alternate
2015–2018
Standard
2015 (early)
Standard
2013–2015
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2012 (late)
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2012
Protest/Alternate
2012 (early)
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2011
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2010–2011
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2008–2010
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2006–2008
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Full-length
Includes Microformats2 and Schema.org microdata.
Where: Flailing Wildly, Goodreads
Ryan Parman is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 280 characters. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
Full-length, no microdata
Ryan Parman is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 280 characters. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
Full-length, no HTML
Where: LinkedIn, Vimeo, OneName
Ryan Parman is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 280 characters. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
300 characters
Where: Bandcamp, Kickstarter, Letterboxd
Ryan Parman is an engineering manager with over 20 years experience across software development, site reliability, and security engineering. He created SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented MFA-as-a-service, and is the godfather of Serverless. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
250 characters
Where: Unsplash
Engineering manager with 20+ years experience in software development, site reliability, and security. He created SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented MFA-as-a-service, and is the godfather of Serverless. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
200 characters
Where: Keybase, Hacker News, Last.fm
Engineering manager with 20+ years in Software/DevOps/Security. Created SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP. Patented MFA-as-a-service. The godfather of Serverless. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
160 characters
Where: Angel.co, Foursquare, GitHub, Medium, Periscope, Pinterest, Twitter, Vimeo
Experienced Software/DevOps/Security engineer. Created SimplePie, AWS SDK for PHP, MFA-aaS. Godfather of Serverless. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
140 characters
Where: HackerOne
Experienced DevSecOps engineer. Created SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP. Godfather of Serverless. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
Headlines/45 characters
Where: Feedly
Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.
Markdown
Where: Coderwall, Micro.blog, StackOverflow
**Ryan Parman** is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of [SimplePie](http://simplepie.org) and [AWS SDK for PHP](https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/), patented [multifactor-authentication-as-a-service](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160241536A1/en?inventor=Ryan+Parman) at [WePay](https://wepay.com), defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at [McGraw-Hill Education](https://www.mheducation.com), and came up with the idea of “[serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/)” while at [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com) in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, [Flailing Wildly](https://ryanparman.com), is where he writes about ideas longer than [280 characters](https://twitter.com/skyzyx). Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.