Resume

Overview

Frontend engineer who builds interfaces that feel obvious to use. I specialize in component architecture, CSS that scales, and JavaScript that ages well. At E*TRADE, I was part of the team building accessible web components for data-dense financial interfaces and built a React sandbox that let non-technical stakeholders prototype with the full design system. At Alaska Airlines, I automated a manual, repo-by-repo release process across 20+ repositories. 10+ years across React, Vue, Svelte, and CSS.

  • Focus

    • Front-End / Design Systems
    • Mobile First UI/UX
    • Deployment Automation
    • Server Side Applications
    • Static Websites

  • Tools

    • Adobe, Sketch, Figma, CodePen
    • VsCode, PhpStorm, Navicat
    • Homebrew, Yarn, Composer, Valet
    • Vagrant, Docker, Forge, Vapor
    • Clickup, Trello, Github, Jira, Azure

  • Tech

    • HTML, CSS/Sass/Tailwind, SVG
    • PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Node
    • Statamic, Nova, Wordpress
    • React, Vue, Alpine, Svelte
    • Laravel, Livewire
    • Web Components, Stencil, Lit
    • Github Actions, Bash, CI/CD

  • Mindset

    • Design driven development
    • Enjoy learning new things
    • Mediation/conflict resolution and empathy in tough situations
    • Passionate about mentorship and team development
    • Mindful of over-engineering and wasteful development practices

Experience

  • Alaska Air
    Senior Software Engineer - Contract
    Oct 2024 -> Current

    Worked on Auro, Alaska Airlines' Lit-based component library used across the company's digital products. Both component work across the library and the platform that ships it underneath.

    • Configured Storybook to read each component's custom element manifest, populating the interactive controls panel automatically for every new component and laying the groundwork for generating React and Svelte wrappers.
    • Created auro-cli to centralize Auro's build and dev tooling across 30+ component repos, with commands for cross-repo migrations, CEM-based docs generation, dependency-aware batching, and semantic-commit analysis.
    • Added React and Svelte framework integration test apps for the form components, validating them in the frameworks consumers ship with.
    • Designed Auro's release gitflow so every component PR ships a versioned npm preview build for consumer apps to test before merge.
  • E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley
    UI Engineer - Contract
    March 2022 -> Oct 2024

    Worked on Campfire Enterprise, Morgan Stanley's design system track for data-dense, workflow-heavy web experiences. Both component work and the documentation, playgrounds, and release tooling around it.

    • Built a CodePen-style playground in React that let designers and product managers prototype with the live design system, no dev environment required.
    • Cut component release time from a full day to under 3 hours by automating npm publishing with semantic-release and GitHub Actions.
    • Set up bi-weekly automated deployments and PR preview environments for the documentation site.
    • Migrated the React documentation site from Webpack to Vite, cutting compile time from 20 minutes to 5.
    • Supported React and Angular consumer teams through design system integration, and mentored junior engineers along the way.
  • Trevetts/Creative+
    Frontend Developer
    Feb 2019 -> Mar 2022

    Frontend developer at a design-driven agency. Shipped Laravel-based sites alongside the design team and built the deployment workflow underneath.

    • Built an automated deployment workflow with Laravel Forge and GitHub that shipped code and ran database migrations on PR merge.
    • Designed and prototyped UI in Illustrator and CodePen so the design team could see and react to interactions before they shipped.
  • LoudDoor
    Full Stack Developer & Designer
    Sep 2017 -> Jan 2019

    Designed and developed comprehensive digital solutions ranging from advertising materials to web applications. Managed project creative direction from conception through final product delivery, ensuring that every detail of the user experience was tailored to exceed target audience expectations. The primary technology stack consisted of Laravel, Vue.js, and SASS.

    • Design and develop responsive web solutions
    • Test, analyze, and improve the user experience
    • Create high converting advertising media
    • Maintain and improve existing web apps
  • Muscle & Strength
    UI/UX Designer & Developer
    Apr 2014 -> Sep 2017

    Hired specifically by M&S to redesign their entire website making it completely responsive. This project included designing and coding everything from the checkout system to the way articles look. As the sole developer on this project I was directly responsible for site design and developing frontend code. This project was a gigantic undertaking consisting of 30+ page templates and thousands of pages of content and products that needed to be either re-designed or newly created to meet specific demands.

    • Designed responsive page templates and marketing pages with Adobe Illustrator or Sketch.
    • Code responsive prototypes of designs in CodePen with static data.
    • Implement prototype code into Magento or Drupal CMS.
    • Assist store, content, and marketing teams with any custom CSS design work to format forms or special landing pages.
    • Design solutions to any UX issues reported by customer service.
    • Created custom graphics and icons using Photoshop and Illustrator.
    • Created SASS styles and jQuery functions to customize the responsive user experience.

Compliments

Raymond Schwartz

Accessibility Engineer -> E*Trade

During our two years together, I always looked forward to collaborating with Ryan since he challenged me to do my best work. Ryan's depth of knowledge, tenacious research, and detail-oriented thinking always made for a learning opportunity, good debate, and led to making well-designed products.

You can always count on Ryan's keen observations to uncover issues and he always offers creative solutions to address his findings. Ryan is a team-player, taking time to help colleagues whether they're struggling with devops or need some advice on CSS best practices-he's always willing to help. Ryan would be a great addition to any team in many capacities. Working with him is one of the things I miss most about not being at E-Trade.

Damien Mase

CEO/Founder -> Muscle & Strength

I hired Ryan in March of 2014 as our first in-house Front-end Ul/UX Developer. He was tasked with creating the first responsive design for Muscleandstrengthcom. His knowledge and understanding of how to build a website that works optimally on multiple screen sizes was immediately apparent. Working within a strict time frame, Ryan delivered and exceptional product which exceeded our expectations.

Over the past 3 years working with Ryan he's been able to demonstrate his talent for creating visually appealing designs with user experience in mind. His knowledge of design software is outstanding and he's been able to take direction from myself and other team members to take an idea from concept to deployment.

During Ryan's employment he's worked with several internal and external teams on design and user experience projects. He's been able to communicate well and effectively gather information from others to deliver a finished product that meets the project specifications.

Without a doubt, I think Ryan would be an asset as a Frontend Ul/UX Designer to any development team.