Ryan Keener

Marietta, PA, United States

Member since March 19, 2014

In 2011, Ryan left the corporate world to start a company, and in the process fell back in love with software development. Along the way, he's become proficient in many new web technologies, especially AWS and Node.js, helping to launch several new products and enhance existing ones.

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Portfolio

Pledge Platform, LLC
AWS CloudFront, CodeDeploy, Autoscaling Groups, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB...
MapQuest
JavaScript, HTML
Modo Design Group
Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js

Experience

JavaScript, 7 years
Node.js, 6 years
MongoDB, 5 years
Stripe, 5 years
Express.js, 5 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS), 4 years
Hapi.js, 3 years
AWS Auto-scaling, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

OS X, WebStorm, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've architected and built is a distributed system to process payments on behalf of organizations and individuals raising money to support their cause.

Employment

CTO
2014 - 2017
Pledge Platform, LLC
- Managed projects and products for a small team of full-stack developers.
- Implemented a development environment including code reviews, testing, and continuous deployment.
- Architected highly-scalable infrastructure utilizing AWS's CloudFront, Autoscaling groups, Elastic load balancers, etc.
- Created a robust delayed payment marketplace which processed payments on behalf of other organizations via Stripe Connect.
Technologies: AWS CloudFront, CodeDeploy, Autoscaling Groups, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Stripe, Vagrant, Puppet
Software Developer
2014 - 2015
MapQuest
- Supported and enhanced MQ JS API as well as MQ Leaflet plugins.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML
Lead Developer, Hellobeacon.com
2013 - 2014
Modo Design Group
- Took an existing API and converted it into a RESTful API.
- Led a team of three developers in scheduling and prioritizing features in order to deliver a product that still hadn't been launched due to "feature creep."
- Transformed an existing system from single-server architecture to one supporting parallel servers behind a load balancer, allowing more flexible growth and deployment.
- Introduced unit and integration testing using Mocha and Chai as well as coverage reporting with Istanbul.
- Integrated a subscription payment service using Stripe.
Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js
Founder, CTO
2012 - 2013
DeliveryCrowd
- Created a location-aware, real-time system to match delivery people with individuals nearby who need something picked up and delivered.
- Worked as lead architect/developer on a team of five in the creation of multiple web applications, mobile applications, and informational websites as well as the server-side technologies to support the solutions.
- Utilized app-based GPS and web sockets along with the MapQuest API to optimize delivery routes.
- Integrated with Balanced Payments to handle one-time payments as well as direct deposit to delivery drivers' accounts.
- Created responsive applications with Twitter Bootstrap and Knockout.js to handle delivery ordering, delivery completion, and back-end administration.
Technologies: Node.js, PHP, MySQL, Mongo, Knockout.js, Cordova, Twitter Bootstrap
Software Engineer
2005 - 2011
Intel Corporation
- Developed and supported CAD tools for microprocessor design.
- Created multiple algorithms and architected a supporting software toolset to provide an automated density fill generation solution devised to minimize impact on functional components of design.
- Served as liaison between design engineers in Hudson, MA and Fort Collins, CO, and software developers in Haifa, Israel, Portland, OR, and Santa Clara, CA.
- Developed a roadmap for pre-fabrication of on-chip electrical field analysis software for Intel's FCDC Itanium design projects.
Technologies: C, Perl, Tcl
Software Engineer
1999 - 2005
Hewlett Packard
- Developed and supported CAD tools for microprocessor design.
- Worked as technical lead for the pre-fabrication of electrical field analysis tools and their associated methodologies for Intel's Tukwila and Poulson microprocessor projects.
- Directed the transition from legacy electrical field analysis software to a new solution.
- Led the effort to increase efficiency and reliability of analysis software. Identified multiple failure mechanisms and their occurrence frequencies. Established effort estimates, calculated ROI, and presented recommendations to management.
Technologies: C, Perl

Experience

Hello Beacon (Development)
http://hellobeacon.com/
Sole server-side developer for this project.
PledgeIt (Development)
https://pledgeit.org
PledgeIt is a performance-based fundraising platform and application. Teams and athletes use PledgeIt to collect pledges against their future performance allowing them to raise funds for causes important to them.

As CTO/Architect/Project Lead, I was actively engaged in the development of this project from the ground up.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Tcl, HTML, Perl, CSS3, PHP, HTML5, Sass
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Stripe API, Socket.IO, Stripe Connect, Stripe, Underscore.js, Backbone.js, Sinon.JS, Puppet.js, Backbone.Marionette, LeafletJS, Google Maps, Chai, Lodash, Moment.js
Tools
Codeship, WebStorm, AWS ELB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, SourceTree, AWS Auto-scaling, Travis CI, Git, GitHub, AWS CodeDeploy, Mongoose, Vim Text Editor, CircleCI, Grunt, Knex.js, Slack, Mocha, Grunt.js, Gulp.js, AWS SQS, MongoDB Atlas, Stripe Checkout, Vagrant, Puppet, Git flow
Frameworks
Express.js, Hapi.js, Ember.js, Swagger, Mocha.js
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS EC2, KeystoneJS, Linux, AWS Lambda, Visual Studio Code
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS S3
Other
Stripe Payments, MMS, Elastic Load Balancing, Swag, DocuSign, AWS Route 53, Async.js
Paradigms
Agile Software Development

Education

BS degree in Computer Engineering
1995 - 1999
The Pennsylvania State University - State College, PA

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