Front-end engineer · Author · Artist

Crafted code, prose & images.

Code, writing, and art — all made with the same intention, the same eye, the same standard.

Selected work

Things I've built.

Personal project · 2025

This website

A complete redesign built in collaboration with an AI — from the design system up. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No framework, no build step. The process turned out to be something more interesting than I expected.

Side project · 2026

projectr v2 beta

A task and project management app for individuals and freelancers — re-built with Angular v19 and Firebase because I wanted to focus entirely on the front end. Built for myself, because I have ADHD. Currently in private beta testing, but sign up if you want to try it out.

Client project · 2026

Vanessa Schill

Portfolio site for a senior instructional designer and ATD Master Trainer. Features a CSS marquee ticker for scrolling skills, fully responsive layout, and a clean typographic system built without a framework.

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Feet up on airport seats — somewhere between assignments
About

I'm Ryan.

Senior front-end engineer by day. Author and visual artist by night. Journalist by training.

I've spent a decade building front-end applications at companies like IBM, ADP, Vanguard, and NBCUniversal. Before that, I spent years writing, reporting on juvenile justice, editing and managing a newsroom, publishing fiction, and creating visual art and comics journalism. The two careers look different. The craft is the same.

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Let's make something worth making.

Open to full-time roles, freelance projects, and conversations about craft. Whether you need a senior front-end engineer or a developer with an eye for design or who can also write your documentation — I'm interested.

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