Ryan White

Ryan, 32, currently works for a company in Abingdon developing a wireless, wearable vital signs monitor for use in hospitals.

Originally from Vancouver, Ryan wanted to be an engineer before he was five years old. His earliest memory is building laser scanners and experimenting with high voltage under the watchful eye of his Uncle and ever since then technology and electronic hardware has been his passion.

He moved to the UK in 2006 to study Cybernetics and Electronics Engineering at Reading University. When he graduated in 2009, he started rLab, the Reading Hackspace, a community organisation which promotes science, engineering and technology with an amazing facility full of tools in Reading.

It is now part of a much larger worldwide network of Hackspaces, and a leading Hackspace in the UK and Ryan is passionate about facilitating the community to make things for themselves through their own personal projects.

In terms of his own product design, he is most proud of a deep-sea seismic data logger system that he created that can be deployed up to four miles underwater and record earthquakes for up to a year running on battery power.

He lives in Reading with his wife Susie who he credits as his inspiration and his encouragement to do his very best in both his work and the hackspace.