Ryan Vogel

Hi! My name is Ryan Vogel and I am a developer, founder & content creator.

My journey started back in 2015 when I first started coding (at the age of 10). My parents got me coding with Scratch from MIT and QBasic. Fast forward to 2021, I got my first ever tech job at Tiny Little Tech Shop, where I was put in charge of a cornerside tech repair shop and told to essentially run it all by myself.

One day the owner walked in with an Ender 3 3D printer and told me to make a revenue stream out of it, so I developed a simple software built in PHP & HTML that would allow people to upload 3D models and get instant quotes for 3D printing.

A couple months later the owner refused to pay me for 4 weeks, so I gave him an ultimatum: either he could back-pay me OR he could give me exclusive IP and rights over the 3D printing section of the company and the printers we had. This is what founded Mandarin 3D. Over the course of the next year I scaled it up to $70k in sales.

As I was running Mandarin 3D, I also worked for Sensible Recycling, a tech debt & recycling center where I also ran the storefront as well as minimal operations. When I felt I wanted an upgrade from tech recycling, I joined Geek Squad as an Advanced Repair Agent.

Around a year after that, I got a mysterious call from someone who told me they got my number from someone in my small group and asked me if I was looking for work. I replied I was, and they asked me a couple plain Windows AD & Server Management questions. After I answered those, I was told to show up to an address (not a company) at 8AM on Monday.

It turned out to be City of Neptune Beach where I went through a couple of levels. I started out as a Contract IT Worker, then became Interim CIO for the city, and finally settled as a Systems Administrator & Network Engineer before leaving.

I joined Neon Postgres as a Developer Advocate (DevRel) in April of 2025, and unknown to me until my first day, we were being acquired by Databricks. So then a couple months after joining Neon Postgres, I joined Databricks as an L3 Developer Advocate.

During this time I also founded Inbound, my open-source email infrastructure company that (at the time) was the only simple to use platform that would let you receive emails in simple to manage webhooks and reply in email threads programmatically. It has grown to over 1000+ users and is still growing to this day.

I had a great time going to conventions and networking, as well as giving my first ever talk at Next.js Conf 2025, which went pretty well. In January of 2026, I joined OpenCode, an agentic coding tool that allows developers to use AI to become more effective. Next up is.....