Ryan Jafari
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since January 8, 2016
For over a decade, Ryan's been planning, managing, programming, and shipping on software projects. A back-end developer turned front-end developer, his passion lies in the delivery of superbly designed web/mobile experiences that help people interface with data, backed by simple, elegant, and scalable code. He's a master of UX development with various front-end frameworks and is always focused on choosing the right tool for the job.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 10 years
- HTML5 - 10 years
- jQuery - 10 years
- CSS - 10 years
- Bootstrap - 5 years
- ZURB Foundation - 5 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 5 years
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is to build a Ruby on Rails consultancy that has helped startups collectively raise over 2 million dollars in funding.
Work Experience
UI Developer
Self-employed
- Created mockups and wireframes of an application’s layout and user flow.
- Engineered static designs into gorgeous, dynamic web experiences built on maintainable code.
- Maintained SEO-friendly front-end code by adhering to best practices.
- Reduced page load times through standard techniques: spriting, caching, compression, etc.
- Provided the architecture, provisioning, management, and deployment of hosting environments.
- Coded complex UI logic according to business needs.
Software Manager
Tanooki Labs
- Ran software projects within the Scrum framework, managing product and sprint backlogs of hundreds of stories over one-week sprints.
- Mediated between founders, designers, and developers to produce informed product roadmaps and functional and technical specs.
- Assembled development teams of up to seven for iteration planning, daily stand up, weekly retrospective, and release planning meetings.
- Reprioritized work, removed blockers, and aligned talent to task to facilitate the expedient shipment of features and bug fixes.
- Mapped out a UX interaction tree for a complex JavaScript trip planner, saving it from the sideline weeks before launch.
Software Engineer
Ryan & Carlos
- Wrote functional specs, product roadmaps, and user stories to lead over 20 products through agile development.
- Shipped flagship features as a full-stack software engineer: wizards, form builders, and advanced search.
- Engineered one client from sketches to a front-end A/B tested against a user base of 20,000 with 2,500 active daily users.
- Achieved 100% fidelity to source designs while maintaining readable, easy-to-modify, and reusable code.
- Coded a library of HTML and CSS-based UI components that shaved hours off of development time.
- Developed a Ruby job to import and sync data from a legacy .NET vacation planning system to a new Rails production database.
Software Engineer
Firstborn
- Leveraged C#, ASP.NET, and MS SQL to offer a candy manufacturer metrics and data visualizations to track the performance of ads.
- Employed Java, JSP, and MySQL to create a shopping cart and accompanying PDF printouts for a manufacturer of light bulbs.
- Utilized ActionScript and Flex to allow a men's products manufacturer to easily manipulate content on their microsite.
- Established production environments for an automobile manufacturer, removing their need to support this in-house.
- Patched a JVM memory leak that threatened to grind live servers to a halt during a campaign's Yahoo page takeover.
Software Engineer
NYU Center for Experimental Social Science
- Designed and built a web-based experiment participant recruitment system with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Java.
- Programmed software in Java and z-Tree for graduate student research experiments in Economics.
- Provisioned and deployed to on-site Linux servers, monitoring uptime and server room conditions.
- Designed and developed MySQL databases for storage and organization of research.
Experience
Get up and Ride
Central Park Conservancy
http://www.centralparknyc.org/eDivv
Statisfy
Tripwing
College Crowd
Affirmify
Quoteboard
Bootstrap for Rails Front-end Developers
All My Links
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
New York University - New York, NY, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, jQuery, React
Tools
Asana, Pivotal Tracker, Sublime Text, Bitbucket, Basecamp, Zapier, Slack, Jira, Trello, Git, GitHub, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Flash
Languages
JavaScript, SCSS, Sass, CoffeeScript, HTML5, Haml, Less, CSS, HTML, ECMAScript (ES6), Liquid Template, C#, Java, SQL, Ruby, PHP
Frameworks
ZURB Foundation 2, Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 3+, Foundation CSS, Foundation for Emails, Bootstrap, ZURB Foundation, .NET, Ruby on Rails (RoR), ASP.NET, Flex, Apache Wicket, Apache Struts, Spring
Paradigms
RESTful Development, Rapid Prototyping, Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Model View Controller (MVC), Agile Software Development, Scrum, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Linux, Heroku, Unix, MacOS, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), LAMP
Storage
JSON, Media Queries, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
PSD to HTML, Web Services, Version Control, Version Control Systems, GitFlow, UX Flows, User Experience (UX), Startups, Entrepreneurship, Wireframing, Performance Optimization, Front-end, Lean Startups, Product Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Development, Performance, Digital Marketing, Team Mentoring, DNS
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