Ryan McGeary

Ryan McGeary

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ABOUT ME
Business Starter, Software Consultant, Full Stack Web Expert, Serverless Pundit
Business Starter, Software Consultant, Full Stack Web Expert, Serverless Pundit

Business Starter, Software Consultant, Rubyist, CrossFit Nerd, Amateur Triathlete, Father, etc. BusyConf.com Founder. ChargeStack.com Founder. Owner of McGeary Consulting Group.

English
Mountain Time (US & Canada) (-06:00)
Joined October 2013
EXPERTISE
9 years experience
User #740 on GitHub which currently has over 26M users. Ample experience with general git workflows and specific workflows surrounding op...
User #740 on GitHub which currently has over 26M users. Ample experience with general git workflows and specific workflows surrounding open source on GitHub.
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6 years experience
Since 2010, many of my JavaScript projects were sourced in CoffeeScript.
Since 2010, many of my JavaScript projects were sourced in CoffeeScript.
9 years experience
All my projects use jQuery in one way or another. Author of several popular jQuery plugins.
All my projects use jQuery in one way or another. Author of several popular jQuery plugins.
12 years experience
Started with Rails v0.14 before any books were written about the framework. Hooked ever since.
Started with Rails v0.14 before any books were written about the framework. Hooked ever since.
20 years experience
Started web design my freshman year in college.
Started web design my freshman year in college.
Bootstrap 4Bootstrap 3HTML/CSSHtml 5 / css 3
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16 years experience
Author of several javascript open-source libraries. Ample experience in serverless technologies involving both AWS Lambda and Webtask. Op...
Author of several javascript open-source libraries. Ample experience in serverless technologies involving both AWS Lambda and Webtask. Open source contributor to multiple Node.js packages.
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12 years experience
Core contributor to many open-source ruby projects. Almost every project I work on incorporates Ruby in one way or another.
Core contributor to many open-source ruby projects. Almost every project I work on incorporates Ruby in one way or another.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(2 reviews)
Griff M
Griff M
December 2017
Ryan helped dig me out of a github hole. He explained the issues clearly.
Patrick
Patrick
August 2014
Fantastic session with Ryan. Solved my problem and created a great refactored solution. Made sure everything was clear and provided excellent explanations. Will certainly be booking some more sessions!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
jquery-timeago
:clock8: The original jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago").
JavaScript
3694
685
dotfiles
●:page_facing_up: Ryan McGeary's configuration shiznit that makes him productive
Emacs Lisp
279
75
Stack Overflow
165264 Reputation
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EMPLOYMENTS
Founder
BusyConf
2010-07-01-Present
Developed and launched a new web service that makes great conferences even better. BusyConf.com allows conference organizers to accept an...
Developed and launched a new web service that makes great conferences even better. BusyConf.com allows conference organizers to accept and rate talk proposals and publish a schedule of accepted talks automatically to multiple platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, and Desktop. Worked primarily with Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Haml, Sass, and Heroku.
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Owner
McGeary Consulting Group
2003-01-01-Present
Developed several web applications for both large and small businesses, including startups. * DTS Inc: Worked directly with their HD Radi...
Developed several web applications for both large and small businesses, including startups. * DTS Inc: Worked directly with their HD Radio division to help enhance their internal web applications leading to improved reporting and analytics, revenue insights, system administration, and overall improved software design and maintenance. * Snapdata: Acted as their Data Scientist and built the server-side to their data analytics platform; * Mailfluri: Investigative project to layout the early designs of a new online campaigning and marketing product. * Game Show Network: Worked with their data teams to help improve usability of their games to improve overall revenue conversion; * App47: Helped an early-stage startup design their user interface and backend data models to support millions of analytics transactions per day. * Stelligent Systems: Mentored a developer to build their first software product. Continued to mentor on subsequent products. * Introhive: Helped with software design decisions and developer augmentation. * GeoIQ: Rescued a late project and completed a custom data mapping application for the FCC on time. * Small Act: Developed a web-based social media client to help non-profits manage their online communication. * Vente Networks: Developed a web-based tool for small businesses to expand their marketing endeavors with little effort. * Salesmason: Taught idiomatic Ruby practices while adding features to their existing codebase. * Innovectra: During the late stages of development, helped their team take a new Rails web application to launch. Others: RailsDog, SolutionStreet, Impact Fantasy Sports, Medical Billing Associates, Prototype Productions, OpenBlue, TotalVid, inQbation, thePlatform for Media (with Microsoft), Pantops Pet Salon, Pet Motel and Salon Worked primarily with Ruby, Rails, PHP, HTML, XML, CSS/Sass, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Apache, IIS, Phusion Passenger, AWS, Heroku, Linux, and macOS.
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Partner & Co-founder
N/A
2008-11-01-2012-10-01
With Jim Garvin, developed and launched a wildly successful parody of Google called LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com. Developed a sustainable ad...
With Jim Garvin, developed and launched a wildly successful parody of Google called LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com. Developed a sustainable advertising model using AdSense, simple ad rotation, and product sales. Worked primarily with HTML, Javascript, jQuery, Apache, and Linux.
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