John Rykken
Lead React Native Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Rykken is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with nine years of experience specializing in architecting and building React Native mobile applications. He has progressed from QA and internship roles to senior engineering at Walmart Global Tech, bringing hands-on expertise in shipping production mobile features across large retail platforms like Sam’s Club and Walmart. John pairs a deep practical knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native with a disciplined background in TDD and full-stack tooling learned at Epicodus. He also brings an uncommon creative perspective from years as a published fiction author, which informs his emphasis on user-centered design and clear product narratives. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex product requirements into maintainable, testable mobile architectures that scale across teams.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, German, Associate's degree, German at University of TübingenBachelor of Arts, Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Government at Portland State University
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Github Skills (21)
django8
project-list7
firebase6
trails6
angular6
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-s36
rspec6
css6
google-cloud-firestore6
typescript6
ruby6
javascript6
react-native6
android3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GreanBeetle/trivia
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
React Native trivia game built with Expo
Contributions:28 PRs, 114 pushes, 24 branches in 23 days
react-nativepuzzlereacttrivia-game
GreanBeetle/tao-oregon
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
hikestrailsoregonproject-list
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