Hey, I’m Ryan! This is where I like to blog/write about things related to software engineering and software engineering leadership. I currently reside in Edmonton, AB, Canada. I lead an amazing software engineering team at Jobber as the VP of Software Engineering.
List of projects/hackathons
Visual Studio Team Services - Extension
Pretty Cards - A tool for printing out user stories/bugs in a specific format that works great on SCRUM boards. Github / Visual Studio Marketplace
Electron
Multi-clip-monlith - Attempt to build a cross platform clipbaord that would store a history of copy/pastes. Electron unfortunately (at the time) wasn’t mature enough to move it forward. Github
Web
Agile Health Check - Custom web app to monitor the health of an agile team over time. Github
yeg-rubyists - A site to list blogs/tweets from yeg rubyists. Github
AWS Amplify Calculator - A calculator for the AWS Amplify Service. Github
iOS/OSX
Gem Sort - A simple game for children. Drag the stars into the correctly colored box. Built for iOS and OSX with Rubymotion/Joybox.iOS (iPad): Github / OSX: Github
Libraries
batman.utilitybelt - A utility library for batman.js. Github
Talks
Stripe - Presentation
Decent Exposure - Presentation
Twilio - Presentation
batman.js - Presentation
OAuth2 - Presentation
Hackathons
Rails Rumble
Alertzy - Hackathon project. Sent SMS/email reminders for garbage day/field closures/road plowing. Over 80+ reminders sent per day. Github
Prompt Pass - Built for the 2015 Rails Rumble. Created for teams that want to transfer passwords securely with 2FA. Github
Folderchute - Built for the 2012 Rails Rumble. Using mover.io we moved files from file storage service to file storage service (ie Dropbox to Google Drive). Written in Rails/AngularJS. Github repo defunct.
Gemrage - Built for the 2010 Rails Rumble. Our dream was to allow developers to install a gem to list out the most popular gems. Github