In my current role I serve as CTO for IBM partnership with Palo Alto networks. Previously I supported IBM Industry Distribution team, I work at the intersection of IBM Technology and IBM Consulting teams, focused on repeatable use cases and value creation for Telco, Distribution, Retail, CPG, Transportation, Rail, and Aviation customers, I recently completed my service on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation Edge (LFEdge) https://www.lfedge.org/ - LF Edge is an umbrella organization that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating systems - to create a common framework for hardware and software standards and best practices critical to sustaining current and future generations of IoT and edge devices. Previously, I served on the Strategy team for IBM's Software Networking business unit (Strategy for Telco, 5G, AI, Cloud and Edge), and before that, as Product Manager for IBM Edge Application Manager (IEAM) and with CTO Office & Edge Computing.For personal projects - I build goofy stuff in my garage https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanAndersonTechnical/ most of it held together with duct tape and cold solder joints. I've dabbled with Apache Arrow, NVIDIA GPUs, AR / VR / XR / Unity, Co-founder of IBM's ThinkReality XR Guild (est. 2016), AI Vision / Python / R / Guild-R (for R Programming language); Empathetic Systems, Space-Mission Mental Health, Autism, "Character Cartridges" and Identity in automated systems.