About the Founder

Building everything solo doesn't scale, and pretending otherwise just wastes years — so most of the work happens alongside people and companies who already understand their piece deeply. EarthPulse is the current vehicle for that work, and VitalWarrior.Earth is where the same care gets pointed at the harder, less quantifiable questions: how to live well, how to move well, how to relate well, and how to build a life that gives the Earth back more than it costs.

By day, I'm a test engineer at Joby Aviation, working on electric aviation — hands-on with rocket-and-cryogenic component testing along the way. That's not a tension with this vision; it's an example of it. We have to proudly do the work in the world we're actually given, not wait around for some imaginary version of it that's already perfect. Real systems, worked on honestly from inside them, is how change like this happens — not from the sidelines. I also love to dance, to play, and to work out, and I'm building JungleGym to share that love of movement with more people.

I'm an environmentalist. In college I started the Climate Crisis Causes and Consequences Action Network — we protested at the Texas State Capitol, and every Friday we'd bring musical instruments and sit on the steps of the UT tower with signs about respecting our mother and loving the Earth, inspired by Greta Thunberg sailing across the world to speak for the planet. These days I'm less interested in only preserving, and more in actively, positively contributing. This is me making a stand for life — giving fuel to my vision of how life could be even more beautiful: raising kids in a village of people I love, doing purposeful, awesome things, proud to be ourselves, proud to be in these bodies, proud to be building a better future.

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Contact: Rye@earthpulse.dev · (512) 730-9023 · more of my work lives at ryejupiter.org · EarthPulse.dev