👤 Ryan Zernach
✉️ Ryan@Zernach.com
🤖 Full-Stack Mobile App Developer
🇺🇸 Remote, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
MY MOST VALUABLE TECH STACK
Quickly Learns New Tools & Techniques
- iOS / Android Mobile Apps (React Native)
- Creating & Managing Endpoints / API’s
- Websites in React / JS / HTML / CSS
- GraphQL, SQL, & NoSQL Databases
- Dashboards & Data Visualizations
- CI / CD via Github / Gitlab / Expo
- Typescript JS & Node.js
- Machine Learning Pro
- Google Cloud & AWS
- Webscraping Wizard
- Cloud-Computing
- Fluent in Python
- and more...
PORTFOLIO PROJECTS (View Portfolio Site)
Finequities App — FinTech Startup Cross Between Robinhood & Facebook (Social-Trading App)
- Utilized custom CLI templating to generate exceptionally organized Typescript components & screens
- Connected with Paid Third-Party API's to place stock/crypto market orders & fetch live prices
- Hosted/Managed the Back-End AWS database & GraphQL API's to power the front-end with data
- Developed the Copy Portfolio process, allowing investors to directly copy another user’s investments
- Implemented design overhauls to greatly improve the user’s social network experience
Landscape Supply App — iOS/Android App & Online Web Dashboard to Buy/Sell Landscape Supplies
- For 3-months part-time, I wrote the iOS/Android app in React Native & built the web dashboard
- Used Python/Flask & HTML/JS/CSS to build the web dashboard and back-end api's
- Hosted the cloud infrastructure & authentication for this project on the Google Cloud Platform
ADP Gym App — Used for Gym Trainers to to Track their Member’s Sessions/Payments
- Listened to client, and then designed and developed the cloud infrastructure for this project
- Designed and developed this Typescript React Native Expo mobile app in nine weeks (part-time)
- Custom-built a companion Python Flask web app for gym members to securely pay their trainers
Better Reads App — iOS App w/ Machine Learning for Readers to Track, Share, & Discover New Books
- Used Agile & Scrum methodologies to iteratively deploy Natural Language Processing (NLP) models
- Practiced CI/CD via blue/green RESTful Flask microservices on AWS EB to facilitate JSON post requests
- Launched & managed a PostgreSQL instance on AWS RDS to store millions of GoogleBooks data
Flight Prices — Airline Pricing Analysis & Interactive Pricing User-Interface
- Built front-end user interface with Flask for user to interact w/ a predictive machine learning model
- Tediously gathered 27M rows of data, wrangled/cleaned to 9M, uploaded data to Kaggle
- As a data analyst, I generated statistical analyses, distribution charts, and business intelligence insights
Brain Power — Using Machine Learning & an EEG Device to Control Technology
- Built an application for the user to control light switches & thermostats with their brain
- Collected data from an EEG device and used Scikit-Learn to train a predictive model
- Deployed back-end Python get request API w/ Flask: communicate w/ EEG device, detect brain patterns
Spotify Music — Recommends New Music Based on Your Favorite Songs
- Connected with Spotify’s API to harvest data (and metadata) about the songs in their database
- Built back-end Python API’s (get & post requests) to return predicted songs data to front-end
EDUCATION
Data Science Software Engineering
Lambda School • Remote • San Francisco, CA • August 2019 - July 2020
- Python, Data Engineering, SQL, NoSQL, Back-End API’s, Productionizing Machine Learning Models. Natural-Language Processing (NLP) Models, Neural Networks, Software Engineering, Statistical Analysis (ie: linear algebra, linear regression, hypothesis testing, & storytelling with data), Classic Algorithmic Paradigms, Computer Science, Data Structures (ie: hash tables, graphs, BST’s, etc.), Runtime Complexity, Computer Architecture, Agile Development, Slack, Zoom, Notion, Trello
Computer Science & Mathematics
Georgia Southern University • Statesboro, GA • August 2011 - December 2012
- Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Statistics, Data Structures, Programming Principles I, Programming Principles II, Discrete Mathematics, Ethics of Computers in Society
CERTIFICATIONS
- Google Cloud Developer, March 2021
- DataRobot 10x Data Science AutoML, September 2020
- TensorFlow Developer, July 2020
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, June 2020
- Y Combinator Startup School, March 2020
EXPERIENCE
● Demosphere, Inc.
React Native Mobile App Developer • Full-Time • Remote • March 2022 - Present
- I came aboard to help design, build, & improve the user experience for their mobile app, which is used by nationwide sports leagues to manage teams, players, coaches, & referees.
● IPEG, Corp.
React Native Mobile App Developer • Short-Term, Full-Time Contract • Remote • February 2022 - March 2022 • 6 weeks
- During my short-term contract, I successfully fixed the bugs on a React Native app that is used by customers in the internet & telecommunications industry.
● Finequities, LLC
React Native Mobile App Developer & Back-End API's Developer • Full-Time Contract • Remote • October 2021 - February 2022 • 5 months
- After everyone was laid-off due to the depletion of private funding, I was reminded that our fintech startup team had created an exceptionally impressive React Native social-trading app for exchanging stocks & crypto. I’m beyond thankful for all of the growth that has come from my experience with Finequities. We were a small team of (2) full-time developers, (1) designer, and (1) project manager.
● Trilogy Education
Data Science Tutor for University Students • Part-Time • Remote • August 2020 - October 2021 • 1 year, 2 months
- I guided hundreds of diverse college students (from dozens of national universities) how to build awesome websites, powerful dashboards, databases, & machine learning models using Python, JavaScript, HTML, & CSS.
● Vanderbilt University
Teaching Assistant: Data Visualizations • Part-Time • Remote • September 2020 - March 2021 • 6 months
- I assisted in teaching a bootcamp-style curriculum to 30+ Vanderbilt Students. I helped them learn how to build awesome websites, powerful dashboards, databases, & machine learning models.
● instaSod.com, CustomizedChristmasLights.com
Small Business Owner (Self-Employed) • October 2015 – January 2019 • 3 years, 4 months
Data Management — automation, invoicing, client management, Google Analytics
Professional Sales — Generated $450k+ gross sales over the course of three years
Designer — websites, systems, processes, graphics, digital landscapes, sales proposals
Lessons Learned — the experience of managing my own businesses has shaped my mindset:
Customer/User/Client Centered Mindset
Ability to Ask the Right Questions
Desire to Never Stop Learning
Intuition to Set Goals/Plans
Clarity of Communication
Team-Building Aptitude
Humility to Ask for Help
Results-Driven Attitude
Disciplined & Focused
Critical Thinking Skills
Capacity to Research
Task Management