Ryan Ahern

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

• 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

• 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).