RON BRONSON

I build and scale teams, hire designers and managers, and grow practitioners into leaders. I work across the full stack—from technical implementation to organizational transformation—with a critical lens on how we build, what we build, and why. For years, I wrote about consequence design, interrogating the second-order effects of our technology choices. I'm currently faculty member in the Urban Technology program where I'm teaching public mechanics this spring and developing trajectory management, a framework for teams making progress when they can't control outcomes.

I spent over seven years at the federal digital services unit called 18F, where I scaled the design practice and built teams that worked. Prior to that, over a decade working full-stack across web development, legacy modernization in complex bureaucratic environments, implementing service design at scale, and program management—navigating constraints to ship anyway. In March, I'm organizing Years Ahead, a convening for people thinking critically about technology's impact on civic life.

Offscreen, I coach high school tennis, host a radio show & spent part of summers in Finland. Last spring, I launched the short-term Portland Digital Corps, an all-volunteer team that worked on web projects for non-profits statewide.