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Ryan Vandersmith

Ryan Vandersmith

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineer at DFINITY

  • Education

    • Rock Canyon High School

      2013 - 2017
      N/A N/A

      Activities and Societies: Software Startup Club, Technology Student Association, Future Business Leaders of America, CyberPatriot, Verizon Innovative App Challenge

    • University of Colorado Boulder

      2018 - 2022
      Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Boettcher Scholar (SUEP), Research Assistant (incremental computing - Adapton, IODyn, Fungi) w/ Dr. Matthew Hammer

    • Colorado School of Mines

      2017 - 2017
      Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Boettcher Scholar, PATHS Scholar, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member

  • Experience

    • Douglas County School District

      Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
      Information Technology Intern

      I designed a REST API for DCSD's InspirED platform and improved the team's provisioning/deployment workflow.

    • Douglas County School District

      Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
      Information Technology Intern

      I designed and implemented both a full-stack web application for students to view the location of their bus in real time and a web service for Transportation Department administrators to manage district bus routes.

    • Douglas County School District

      Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
      Information Technology Intern

      I provided leadership and development strategy for the software intern team while developing a full-stack bus route map service for the district website.

    • Halfbeard Web Design

      Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
      Web Systems Developer

      Halfbeard is a team of enthusiastic and creative web developers. Be sure to reach out if you're looking for a unique flair in your business's web presence.

    • Douglas County School District

      Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
      Information Technology Intern

      I built DCSD's bus route map service while providing mentorship for additional intern projects.

    • Plexa Technologies LLC

      Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
      Freelance Software Consultant

      From 2017-2022, I worked as a web technology consultant for a wide variety of startups and small businesses. In particular, I specialized in creating full-stack Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) using React, Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, Mongo/Postgres/GraphQL, Webpack, and Workbox.

    • University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science

      Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
      Research Assistant

      I worked with Dr. Matthew Hammer on developing a programming language for Adapton, a cutting-edge incremental computing system (https://adapton.org).Specifically, I developed an online visualization tool for the paper "Fungi: Typed incremental computation with names" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07826).

    • DFINITY

      Jul 2022 - now
      Software Engineer

      • Lead engineer for cross-chain EVM integrations• Lead engineer for Motoko language tooling (VS Code extension, formatter, live-reload dev server, embed service, starter projects, and compiler browser support)• Full-stack engineer for the IC Developer Experience Feedback Board (dx.internetcomputer.org)• UX research (surveys, generative / evaluative studies)• Statistical analysis of Motoko source code on GitHub to inform language design decisions• Mentoring community developer grant recipients Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Spring 4.0

      Brainbench
      Feb 2017

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Ryan Vandersmith
      2017 Boettcher Scholar Boettcher Foundation http://boettcherfoundation.org/colorado-scholarships/