Hi, I'm Ryan. I live and work in Chicago as a Front End Engineer. I'm always building side projects and write JavaScript-related tutorials that help folks build things, too.
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Things I've built
React SPA Starter
Fully-featured boilerplate for single-page React applications. Comes with automated AWS resource provisioning and CI/CD configurations.
Movie Medium
A game where you predict the Rotten Tomatoes scores of upcoming movies. Play with friends on GroupMe or coworkers in Slack (available in the Slack app marketplace).
DepChecker
Analyzes a project’s package.json file and generates a detailed report about the state of its npm dependencies.
React Simple Storage
Simple component and helper functions for using web storage with React.
News Sites Scraper
A Node.js program that screenshots and scrapes links from dozens of news sites. It uploads the images to a CDN and saves the scraped data and CDN response to a MongoDB database.
First Job Finance
Tools and checklists to help adults-in-progress stress less about their personal finances.
Skills, concepts and familiar tech
General
Front End
Back End
Testing
Concepts
Tools
Things I've written
Redux-Saga tutorial for beginners and dog lovers
Build a simple app that fetches dog images using React, Redux & Redux-Saga
How to take advantage of Local Storage in your React projects
And why you ought to.
How to build fully responsive React apps with nothing but inline styles and JavaScript
A tutorial for devs sick of chaotic stylesheets and media queries.
About Me
Background
I started working at a financial advisory firm in Chicago right after graduating from the University of Michigan in 2015 with majors in Economics and German.
Not long after, I began to build a Wordpress site to share and discuss interesting articles, books and podcasts with my virtual book club. I became obsessed with customizing the design, implementing new functionality and simply building something from nothing.
Over the next year and a half, I spent my mornings, nights and weekends learning and coding as much as I could. I built a portfolio of fun and challenging projects to gain practical, technical experience. I also became a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional during that time.
I landed my first developer job in early 2018 at an IT company and have been loving it ever since.
Outside the 9 to 5
A lot of my free time is spent building side projects, playing with new tech and participating in the community by writing tutorials and attending the occasional meetup (gave my first talk in January of 2020!). I really love software development, so work and play are often mixed.
I also enjoy movies, staying active, good podcasts, taking improv classes, spending time with friends and going on at least one adventure a year. The most recent one was scuba diving in Grand Cayman, where I saw some sharks and a huge eel, swam through absolutely beautiful coral reefs and did my best not to get crushed by the boat in rough waters!