• Freelance developer working in MERN and Angular for various projects • Mentoring and tutoring on best practices • Refactor and upgrade preexisting projects

Full Stack Engineer

• Reviewed curriculum and make suggestions and examples for students to review • Rewriting the React portion of the curriculum since May 2019 • Review pull requests by students and show explicit techniques for bettering the development process • Teach best practices for agile, business, and development techniques, including GIT, Jira(tickets), estimation, GitHub, and documentation. • Worked with alumni community to enhance the outreach to Veterans interested in coding, and development into leaders in technology • Pair programming with students to foster best practices and approaches for coding and learning

TA/Tutor

• Work under contract for Chicago Based Clients • Create demo and MVP from wireframes in Angular 8+ • Involved in agile development including maintaining code coverage and reviewing/mentoring other engineers • Expanded knowledge and understanding through participating in practice groups for voice tech, AI and Machine Learning, and Cloud based architecture • Implemented Material-UI, bootstrap, and custom CSS to design and maintain readability • Built two in-house projects including a personnel rating system (built in React, NextJS, Typescript and Firebase) and upgraded the company website (pending launch by end of the fourth quarter).

Front End Engineer

• Work with small startup team to cover full technology demands of business • Refactored React code to move away from Rest API’s as we implemented GraphQL • Expanded modular component library in order to create a clean and coherent aesthetic across all products • Implemented Rails backend to create new features, jobs, and queries with Elastic Search • Focus on TDD with RSpec and Jest to maintain integrity of codebase • Responsible for deployments using Heroku, Team City • Optimized site performance with Heroku dashboard, Splunk, Google Analytics • Reviewed third Party tech and made recommendations for cost efficiency and performance • Worked with product to design mockups of Front-End features for developers to translate • Communicated with sales team to define requirements and created user testing experiences • Developed documentation and routines for operating procedures for On Call, Front-End, and Deployment procedures

• Hired as a lead front-end engineer in a small-scale startup, working with minimal staff • Architected and structured the Front-End tech stack and codebase using React and Redux-Saga • Worked with founders to design mockups of Front-End features along with making recommendations • Advised on technology decision including design and leverage within the market space • Practiced TDD with Jest and testing-library, in order to build out sustainable and scalable code • Implemented TypeScript to create clear checks and indications within the code • Worked with founder to leverage Firebase and prepare for pivot to scalable Java back-end • Advised on business decisions including focus on creating additional revenue streams, PR, and lower cost of entry into market

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Ryan A.

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