Dustin Ryerson
Senior Front End Engineer with Expertise in Front End Development and UX/UI Design
13 yrs experience · Colorado Springs, CO · 10-20 hrs/week
About
Focused, highly dependable and detail-oriented Software Engineer with exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills, a talent for problem solving and a passion for developing great software. Experienced in front end engineering, cloud deployment, and full-stack development across industries such as technology infrastructure, design marketplaces, and enterprise portal solutions.
Skills
Experience
- Senior Front End Engineer and Tech Lead · Kong Inc.02-01-2021
- Tech lead and lead front end engineer for the Konnect Service Catalog engineering team, building new features using Vue.js, TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Vite and Cypress - Built the first few full features for Konnect Service Catalog as the first front end engineer entrusted to work on the new product area. - Improving internal developer experience by optimizing GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows and jobs - Working with engineering managers and directors to grow teams including conducting hiring interviews, defining and planning major projects and deadlines, and ensuring customer success by seeing initiatives through to completion - Mentoring mid and senior-level developers in coding and testing best practices, conducting 1:1 and team meetings to improve communication, productivity and understanding of team objectives Technologies used: - Vue.js - TypeScript - JavaScript - CSS/SCSS - Pinia - Vite - Vitest - Cypress - Playwright - GitHub - GitHub Actions - Datadog
- Cloud Deployment Engineer Front End UX/UI · Joyent (Samsung Mobile)11-01-2018 – 02-01-2021
- Lead Front End Engineer for the Samsung Mobile Infrastructure Engineering team - Designed and built the entire front end for two new platforms to support network, infrastructure and data center engineering teams - Rewrote an existing data center build application front end, porting it from Mithril.js to Vue.js and adding unit tests to cover the entire front end - Responsibilities include managing three front end applications, including designing and implementing new features, improvements and bug fixes Technologies Used: - JavaScript (ES6) - Vue.js - Vuex - Vue Test Utils - Vue Router - Vue CLI - Webpack - Nuxt.js - Jest - Axios - CSS/SASS - Vuetify - Bulma - Yarn/NPM - Docker - Ansible
- Front End Web Development Engineer · Creative Market – The World's Marketplace for Design2017-10-01 – 2018-11-01
- Front End Web Development Engineer on the Creative Market Pro team at Creative Market. - Built a brand new product, Creative Market Pro, from scratch with a team of full-stack, front end and back end engineers, designers and product managers. - Developed new features, improved existing features and fixed bugs using Vue.js, JavaScript and CSS/SCSS. - Improved the build tools used by our team of engineers. - Implemented a new Jest testing integration for both Creative Market and Creative Market Pro. Languages and frameworks used: - JavaScript (ES6) - Vue.js - React - Backbone.js - CSS/SCSS/LESS - Webpack - Gulp - Jest - Axios - Yarn/NPM - Twig
- Senior Software Engineer, Front End · Liferay2016-01-01 – 2017-10-01
- Led the Front End team in Technical Support - Led the Interview team in Technical Support - Served as multi-department subject matter expert for front end issues and questions - Fixed front end bugs and developed improvements and features for the Liferay core platform, plugins and developer tools
- Software Engineer, Front End · Liferay2014-01-01 – 2015-12-01
- Lead Front End engineer in Technical Support - Served as a global lead software engineer in Technical Support for reviewing and backporting code to legacy Enterprise Release versions of Liferay Portal and Liferay Marketplace Plugins - Trained software engineer new hires and interns on how use Git, GitHub, SmartGit, JIRA and Liferay Portal software, and on how to backport code to legacy versions of Liferay Portal
- Junior Software Engineer, Full Stack · Liferay2012-06-01 – 2014-01-01
- Handled complex technical support escalations - Analyzed, debugged, confirmed and fix issues and software bugs reported by clients - Provided clear and timely analysis and communication to Customer Support to resolve issues - Created deliverable hotfixes and patches to provide solutions for clients - Performed database, thread and heap dump analysis - Served as lead software engineer in U.S. Technical Support for reviewing and backporting code to Enterprise Release versions of Liferay Portal software - Communicated with global Core Engineering team to improve and refine bug fixes - Continued to learn from and mentor other engineers through collaboration on issues, bug fixes and improvements - Created knowledge base documentation of analysis and testing procedures and of the technical details of bugs found within the software and how they were fixed
- Junior Full Stack Engineer · CT Group2011-06-01 – 2012-05-01
Education
- Biola UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
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