About
I'm Ryan Walsh — goes by Ryan or Reason. I live in Concord, NC, and I've spent the last twenty years in tax software. I've been an Enrolled Agent since 2011. I don't have a CS degree, and I don't write code by hand.
Claude writes the code. I architect the systems, read what it produces, verify against reality, and build intuition through use. It's a different kind of technical practice than the one I grew up adjacent to — closer to how a producer works with a band than how an engineer works with a compiler — and it rewards the parts of my brain that were always going to be my strengths anyway: pattern recognition, structural design, fast iteration, and a very low tolerance for doing the same thing twice.
I have ADHD, Combined, Moderate. I'm not shy about it because it's load-bearing context for how I build. Task initiation is the hard part — not execution — which is why my tooling is aggressively automation-first. The personal OS that powers this site, the dashboard, the health checker, the morning briefing — none of them exist because I wanted a project. They exist because sustained effort on unengaging maintenance is the exact thing my neurology is worst at, so I routed around it. The same architectural instinct shows up in the products: advisor patterns that escalate only when uncertain, eval harnesses that run unattended, cost telemetry that catches drift before I'd have noticed manually. ADHD shaped the constraints. The constraints shaped the systems.
What I'm building toward is independence — enough of a portfolio of shipped AI work that the next chapter is mine to define. Not cold outreach. Not sales. Not content. Just the work, in public, with honest writeups of what's in it. If that's useful to you, the projects are up top and my email is in the footer.
- handle
- reasonequals
- based
- Concord, NC
- credential
- Enrolled Agent (2011–)
- ryan-walsh-ai-tax
- stack
- Claude Code · Astro · SvelteKit · Python · Playwright
- writing
- landing Q3 2026