Ray Deck

Ray Deck

Mentor
5.0
(215 reviews)
US$99.00
For every 15 mins
336
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
20y Data Scientist, CTO and Teacher
20y Data Scientist, CTO and Teacher

Hi! I've been leading and teaching technologists and tech-enabled businesses for over 20 years in various startups I have grown. I learned coding as a child, studied (what we now call) data science in school, and have worked in finance, consulting, and building a series of software startups with various technologies: Tensorflow, Swift, Objective C, React, React Native, Typescript, Node.js, Visual Basic, Solidity... the list goes on.

I'm super practical about technology and how we can cut our cost and time through good tooling. If I can help you find a shorter, easier path, I will. That's why I investigate the integration of quality nocode services into a stack - where is there an opportunity to radically cut costs and improve velocity?

My love is teaching people to be better technologists. Help them see the problem and resolve the issue, rather than just lay my hands on the keyboard. I'm hoping to do this as a Codementor as well!

I bring this teaching approach to community participation and events as well as my companies and 1-1 teaching. I've spoken at a number of conferences and meetups on React Native, Swift, AR, and machine learning.

Currently, I run a Group Mentoring meetup for people interested in no-code. You can sign up at https://statechange.ai/meetups.

And I help where I can with humans coming up.

We're all busy people, so on-demand help can be hard. The best way to get a session in the near term is to book a time with me via my calendly: https://calendly.com/raydeck/codementor

A couple of things about how I work: I provide 1-1 mentoring on here, as opposed to longer-term work. I also do not provide free sessions anymore. However, if you are dissatisfied with how a session is going, tell me so and you not be billed. I measure myself on people helped, and the challenge of the problem that they can overcome - with just a little help.

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)
Joined September 2021
EXPERTISE
1 year experience | 2 endorsements
Helping businesses and developers choose and implement nocode tooling to seriously cut development expense. Found hundreds of thousands i...
Helping businesses and developers choose and implement nocode tooling to seriously cut development expense. Found hundreds of thousands in savings for companies - and much improved reliability. Was named the "Nocode Philosopher" of the Makerpad Build Club.
IFTTTPostmanTray.io
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IFTTTPostmanTray.ioAutomate Technologies Private LimitedWixZapierIntegromatWebflowXano
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7 years experience | 2 endorsements
Built complex iOS apps in Swift as well as React Native modules bridging apps to native functionality. Have spoken about Swift and machin...
Built complex iOS apps in Swift as well as React Native modules bridging apps to native functionality. Have spoken about Swift and machine learning at a couple of conferences.
1 year experience | 8 endorsements
The core requirements of the EVM bytecode, ERC APIs, Truffle deployment, OpenZeppelin libraries to accelerate development and simplify st...
The core requirements of the EVM bytecode, ERC APIs, Truffle deployment, OpenZeppelin libraries to accelerate development and simplify standard patterns. Also can discuss with web3 API as well as the variants (like Solana)
Truffle suite BlockchainEthereumPolygonAvalancheEthersHardhatWeb3
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5 years experience | 9 endorsements
Built multiple apps used in legaltech area since 2016. Spoke about React Native multiple times at conferences, especially the intersectio...
Built multiple apps used in legaltech area since 2016. Spoke about React Native multiple times at conferences, especially the intersection with custom native code.
3 years experience | 8 endorsements
Been using Typescript (mostly the 3.x and 4.x generations) to drive errors out of javascript projects on the front end and back end. Auth...
Been using Typescript (mostly the 3.x and 4.x generations) to drive errors out of javascript projects on the front end and back end. Authored a number of NPM packages to help automate the generation of typescript code - and leverage it for more error-free shipping!
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4 years experience | 1 endorsement

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(215 reviews)
Moxie
Moxie
May 2023
What a great guy Ray is!!! He was very insightful with my unique requirements!
Jacob Lim
Jacob Lim
April 2023
Ray helped me solve a hard problem with the Airtable API. I checked online forums, Airtable documentation, etc and there were no fast solutions online. He is an absolute expert and helped me solve the problem fast. He's expensive but you need to pay top dollar for top quality
jk
jk
November 2022
Ray is legit. Came with half baked idea for a solidity contract but was struggling to put the pieces together to make it happen (due to lack of experience). He broke it down for me in an understandable way & quickly. I had other calls with 2 different mentors who said it wasnt possible... Now time to implement :) Thanks!
Nicholas Arner
Nicholas Arner
April 2022
Very helpful with rethinking some architecture decisions on my backend setup
Yuval Drori
Yuval Drori
April 2022
Needed a consultation for a big high-stakes blockchain project involving several Solidity contracts, DApps, and complicated on-chain and off-chain logic. I've received offers for help from several mentors on CodeMentor, with each one suggesting a radically different approach. I was unsure about Ray at first because from a glance at his profile it didn't seem like blockchain was 100% his speciality, but after speaking with him through the chat function, I decided to give it a shot. I'm glad I did. Ray gave me the impression of being more versed in the way blockchain projects work than most people I've worked with so far, by far. This includes both theoretical understanding of how the blockchain works under the hood, practical knowledge of best practices in blockchain projects, and several useful tricks to get important bits and pieces just right, like gas costs. Overall I achieved every goal I set for myself to cover with Ray and I have a 100% clear understanding of the best way to proceed in these projects after my session with him. I highly recommend him and definitely intend to work with him again.
admin@crash3.io
admin@crash3.io
April 2022
Ray is very knowledgeable on all things blockchain and Ethereum. He was able to give me great guidance on a niche problem I was encountering.
Nicholas Arner
Nicholas Arner
March 2022
Extremely helpful to rubber duck some difficult geometry things with
jeff
jeff
March 2022
Very helpful and knowledgeable tutor.
Sophek
Sophek
March 2022
Ray was able to explain to me the process really clearly. I can tell he knows his stuff. Great session.
Ali Zaheer
Ali Zaheer
March 2022
Ray is an excellent resource. He has the ability to breakdown complex technical solutions into digestible explanations. Looking forward to our next discussion.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
react-native-vision
Supporting advanced Vision and ML functionality with react native
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react-native-swift
Add support for swift static libraries to React Native-built apps
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