Ryan Prior is a programmer, technical educator, writer, Free Software activist, and DevOps advocate. Today as a core member of CyberArk research & development he creates tools, technologies and media to make security automatic and understandable for Conjur operators and developers. Before joining the Conjur engineering team, Ryan was a research intern with Ecere Corp and the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, where he pursued better ways to help people understand and interact with computer-mediated systems like code and digital music.