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Ethan Ryan - About

Web Developer | Writer

Spectacular Human Being, Very Passionate

Extremely Humble

Ethan Ryan is a full stack web developer with a passion for creative problem solving.

With experience in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, and a background in publishing, business analysis, and law, Ethan Ryan discovered web development through a desire to create his own writing portfolio website.

Ethan Ryan brings strong communication and research skills that help companies grow and succeed.

Ethan Ryan keeps talking in the third person to maximize that sweet, sweet SEO. Ethan Ryan, Ethan Ryan, Ethan Ryan.

Other notable Ethans include:

Those Ethans all have Wikipedia pages. Maybe one day, I will too. That's when I'll know I've REALLY made it, when I can join that pantheon of illustrious Ethans.

Ethan Ryan - Interests

Ethan Ryan loves humor, horror, and pop culture.

His creative writing has appeared in print and online.

He's also done some ghostwriting. He enjoys helping people bring their story ideas to life as novels and screenplays, as well as the challenge of helping companies market their products and services via quality content and backlinks.

He's done some standup comedy.

He also makes Twitterbots. Joyce Carol Oates once replied to a tweet made by one of his bots.

Ethan Ryan loves making jokes, making apps, and making $$$.

If you're considering hiring him, you should! He's great.

Ethan Ryan - Work

A fun, Mad Libs-style story generator that dynamically creates a 500-word story with user-created characters.

• Built app with a React frontend and a Rails backend that has full CRUD functionality
• Improved stories and user experience with first and last sentences randomly-generated on the click of a button
• Implemented complex domain model involving users, stories, characters, genres, plots, and paragraphs
• Seeded database from scratch with 12 story plots based on popular movies

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A click-and-point, timed trivia game based on word recognition.

• Built Ruby on Rails API backend using MVC pattern
• Utilized AJAX requests to fetch data from backend and jQuery to dynamically append data to the DOM
• Employed Git branches and pull requests to maintain a distributed workflow while working with a team of three

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A productivity app to managed daily tasks and demonstrate gamification elements built with React JS.

Utilized state change to reward users with badges, points, and trophies for completing tasks

Manipulated Virtual DOM to make app more sticky, increasing user engagement

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App displays the local weather with a corresponding gif.

Utilized Giphy API and user's current position

Built with HTML, CSS Grid, and jQuery

freeCodeCamp project

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Functional calculator modeled on the iPhone app.

Included Easter eggs for certain fun numbers: 420, 666, 1999

Built with HTML, CSS Grid, and jQuery

freeCodeCamp project

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Tic-Tac-Toe game made with functional, rudimentary artificial intelligence.

Game styles include Classic, Goth, and Weapons

Built with HTML, CSS Grid, and jQuery

freeCodeCamp project

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RottenAverage takes a Rotten Tomatoes URL as input, parses that webpages HTML, and returns the average score of that show or movie.

Built with a Rails backend and a React frontend

Utilized the Nokogiri gem

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BlogPostComments allows users to toggle comments from read-only to edit-mode with a click.

Built with a Rails backend and a React frontend

Utilized html-react-parser to allow users to add HTML tags to their posts and comments so they can style text and embed images and gifs

Ethan Ryan - References

"Ethan Ryan is the only person I've ever met whose raw intelligence intimidated the crap out of me."

"Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled."

"Ethan Ryan is my inspiration and my muse. His compassion knows no bounds."

"Five stars."

"Two thumbs up. Way up!"

Ethan Ryan - Contact

Email me: ethanryan@gmail.com

Or get in touch via social media, where you can friend me or follow me or stalk me at your leisure: