Ryne has organized the Filipino Americans Coming Together (FACT) conference in the past and has attended and presented at several Filipino community conferences in the Midwest and nationally. He is a founder of the Midwest Association of Filipino Americans (MAFA) and formed the Chicago team for BakitWhy.com. In 2015 he was tapped to help create the Chicago chapter of Pilipino American Unity for Progress (UniPro) and served as chapter president. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.