Ryan Gilson
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Pointivo
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Front-End Engineer
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Feb 2023 - Present
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Foreground
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United States
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Photography
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1 - 100 Employee
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Staff Software Engineer
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Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Worked on the Collage.com engineering team, an eCommerce platform for designing and delivering consumer-based goods.- Collaborated on designing and implementing user-focused experience testing with a focus on the optimization of revenue. This included refactoring and implementing the core site-wide sale modal which was shown to all new users immediately on interacting with the page, which resulted in improved email capture rates. - Responsible for the major version upgrade of Material UI from v4 to v5 across Collage product teams, including dependency analysis, defining the rollout strategy to prevent intermediate impacts in ongoing work streams, manual and automated testing for visual and functional regressions.- Designed and implemented configurable tooling to allow Marketing resources to define and customize dynamic product gift page layouts without developer intervention. This includes delivering comprehensive documentation and holding collaboration sessions for knowledge sharing.- Implemented several new product pages and SKUs to the application, including defining vendor-specific shipping rules, defining product sizing and mask dimensions, and integrating with several vendor-specific API's for order submission. Show less
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Front End Architect
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May 2018 - Oct 2021
Member of the engineering team at ShootProof, a photographer-focused business platform for proofing photos and shipping custom prints directly to clients. - Managed and led the periodic Center of Excellence for front-end focused team members across the organization, which served as a platform for maintaining and sharing best practices, addressing and resolving immediate and ongoing development-focused issues, as well as serving as a means for knowledge sharing across teams.- Accountable for planning and coordinating the transition from an AngularJS application to React, including defining and managing the roadmap for feature and infrastructure development, identifying and documenting best practices, managing stakeholder concerns and expectations, building and presenting multiple cross-team training presentations, and gathering feedback from across teams to improve the developer and user experience. - Served as core maintainer on internal component library (based on ChakraUI) which was shared across multiple business units, where my responsibilities included defining and documenting the release and deployment strategy, coordinating releases across teams, and enforcing standards of quality through CI- Contributed to and collaborated with several cross-functional scrum teams including; involvement in the implementation, delivery, and documentation of SSO across business units using OpenID Connect on top of OAuth2, designed and implemented a shared payment flow component utilizing a Stripe-powered payment gateway across all core payment flows while reducing PCI compliance scope, and implementing the “in-room” canvas visualization feature. Show less
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Aces Health
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Greater Atlanta Area
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Principal Software Engineer
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May 2017 - Mar 2018
- Responsible for the overall development strategy, design, and delivery of a patient-facing clinical trial management system built using AngularJS and Ionic with a Node.js backend deployed in the AWS cloud - Managed day-to-day operations of the engineering team, with a strong focus on security, code quality and the overall patient experience - Created and maintained technical architecture roadmap, identifying and executing on key strategic initiatives to deliver value to clients and patients - As the first engineering hire, oversaw the transition from a MVP to a fully validated product which successfully passed a vendor audit with a Top 5 CRO Show less
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TrendKite Influencer Management
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Front-End Engineer
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Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
- Responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the front-end for social marketing-based SaaS built using React.js and Redux - Managed day-to-day operations of the front-end engineering team - Designed and built core user-facing features, including Universal Search which was covered prominently in an article by Adweek (linked below) - Responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the front-end for social marketing-based SaaS built using React.js and Redux - Managed day-to-day operations of the front-end engineering team - Designed and built core user-facing features, including Universal Search which was covered prominently in an article by Adweek (linked below)
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ARGO
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United States
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Certified Programmer II
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Sep 2009 - Oct 2014
- Provided key contributions to base product and customer implementations of Teller and Direct/Indirect Lending products utilizing a web-based front-end in Javascript/XSLT along with proprietary middleware tier - Heavily involved in building a flexible, cross-LOB legal form generation system using C#/.NET technologies - Worked on credit decisioning layer built primarily in Lua - Provided key contributions to base product and customer implementations of Teller and Direct/Indirect Lending products utilizing a web-based front-end in Javascript/XSLT along with proprietary middleware tier - Heavily involved in building a flexible, cross-LOB legal form generation system using C#/.NET technologies - Worked on credit decisioning layer built primarily in Lua
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