Ryan Zigler

Experience

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  Zigler & Associates

  Jun 2007 - Jun 2020

  Managing Registered Representative

  • Oversaw the successful transition of over $30 million of assets as part of a 6-month transition between broker/dealers with a 100% client retention rate.• Engineered and executed long-term financial plans using Monte Carlo methods to increase the probability of success through age 95 to greater than 90%.• Supervised a team of more than two dozen registered and unregistered staff members across 7 locations.• Planned, organized, and taught at more than 20 community education workshops on various financial topics such as Social Security, taxes, and creating budgets. Show less

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  Personal Software Engineering Projects

  Jun 2020 - May 2021

  Web application for a video game digital distribution platform with product-specific media, reviews, and purchase options.• Reduced an inherited database’s storage requirements by 69% by refactoring the database schema to remove the storing of redundant information and refactoring the front-end.• Reduced response times by over 30% utilizing K6, Loader.io, and New Relic to test and analyze metrics of different load balancing techniques.• Implemented horizontal scaling with an NGINX load balancer to increase throughput from 100 RPS to 5,000 RPS with a 12ms response time and 0% error rate.Tech Stack: Nodes.js | Express | PostgreSQL | Cassandra | NGINX | AWS | K6 | Loader.io | New Relic Show less Web application for a listing page on a travel booking application.• Leveraged React Hooks to utilize global state without Redux and reduce code reproduction by 66% in modal components.• Implemented service-oriented architecture to combine four services on AWS ec2 using an NGINX proxy server.• Utilized Styled-Components to create a dynamic experience and reduce CSS conflicts from other services in SOA deployment.• Collaborated with four engineers using Agile software development practices and tools.Tech Stack: React | Node.js | Express | Styled-Components | MySQL | Webpack | Babel | NGINX | AWS | Jest | Enzyme Show less

  • Arcadia | Back-end Engineer

    Sept 2020 - May 2021

  • Wandrr | Full Stack Engineer

    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
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  Cro Metrics

  May 2021 - now

  I write code that runs on top of client's websites and alters the experience for the end-user in an effort to improve the conversion rates of key performance metrics via A/B testing.Tech Stack: Javascript | React | HTML | SCSS | jQuery | Angular Testing Platforms: Optimizely Web & Edge | Convert | VWO | Google Optimize | Adobe Target | Dynamic Yield

  • Lead Experiment Engineer

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Senior Experiment Engineer

    Dec 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Experiment Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Experiment Engineer

    May 2021 - Jun 2021