Ryan Darge

I implemented a comprehensive label printing integration that enabled scientific researchers to define complex label templates derived from entities within the system.

The label templates could conditionally pull additional parameters from complex relationships and route to specific printers based on user proximity and preference. The integration utilized a RESTful API on the label printing server and supported secure label transmission for validated environments. The integration was fundamentally decoupled from the rest of the existing monolithic web application to enable a more efficient scaling as client expectations and demands continued to rise. I also led the integration efforts through design, development, testing, and delivery of the product into the hands of dozens of large clients of the enterprise scientific platform.

I worked collaboratively with a cross-functional team to implement a comprehensive integration with a third party high-throughput screening integration.

The integration relied upon a combination of RESTful and SOAP APIs to derive statistics and images of experimental screening data—integrating them into the web application's standardized scientific workflow, eliminating the need to manage multiple sessions and contexts across different applications, and reducing the number of clicks to complete evaluating a scientific experiment by a significant margin.

The integration was engineered over several sprints with numerous milestone checkpoints and demonstrations to the client enabling an efficient response to client feedback.

I led a team of two remote engineers on an initiative to refactor technical debt and security vulnerabilities within the application's data access layer over the course of 4 months.

I also defined best practices and patterns to address statically reported security vulnerabilities and remove substantial boilerplate code improving the readability and sustainability of the code in addition patching potential security vulnerabilities.

In addition, I compiled the targeted documentation for the remote team and provided visual demonstrations of applying the security fix and led the subsequent code reviews to validate corrections.

Overall, the initiative corrected several security vulnerabilities per file across over 70 different data access classes and reduced the lines of code in each by an average of 30%.

I worked with the team leads across several departments to understand pain points in an existing scrum workflow and document requirements and optimizations that could be made to improve support issue turnaround time, reduce the number of recurring issues, facilitate more timely documentation of features, and improve the success rate of the company's software engineering sprints.

I collaborated with the engineering team leads to implement the new scrum workflow in Atlassian JIRA with validated checkpoints to ensure that the documentation and requirements were captured and evaluated to avoid dangerous assumptions, and worked with various stakeholders over several revisions to ensure that the additional level of rigor would not impose an undue burden on the requirements owners for various issues.

After implementing the workflow in earnest, the participating engineering teams accomplished the first of several sprints hitting all expected deadlines and milestones for the first time in several months prior to this change.

Over the course of several days, I built this VR-enabled Unity game with a couple of my other past co-workers for the 2017 AGBIC Game Jam. The application utilized Unity's proprietary VR libraries in a C# environment to create compelling motion-controller based interactions within a standing VR experience.

"Open your eyes to the difficult life of a grizzly bear wading through ice-cold rivers, fending for food to feed your hungry cubs. Open your hands to the difficult task of snatching these fish out of the air as they face their own struggle to survive. Open your heart to the full experience of BEAR FISHING and realize your true potential in this heart-racing game of ever-increasing challenge and skill."