Johnny Ryan
Managing Director at The HIVE, Grand Forks
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Ryan is a results-driven software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building full-stack and IoT products, currently serving as Managing Director of The HIVE in Grand Forks and CEO of Northdacoder, LLC. He blends hands-on engineering (Angular, Node, Django, Python) with ecosystem-building—helping drone, UAS, and defense startups scale while cultivating community-driven collaboration in North Dakota. Previously he shipped SmartThings and Samsung Smart TV IoT apps, led rapid prototyping for Target’s Style Innovation team, and developed internal Git/GitHub training used by hundreds of engineers. Known for fast MVP delivery across web, mobile, and embedded platforms, he pairs technical depth with a knack for teaching and accelerating technical talent. Based in Grand Forks, he brings an uncommon mix of startup hustle, enterprise training experience, and practical IoT hardware/software integration.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CIEE, Economics of the European Union, CIEE, Economics of the European Union at Universitat d'AlacantBachelor of Arts (BA), Financial Economics | Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Financial Economics | Spanish at Gustavus Adolphus CollegeRocketU @ RocketSpace
Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (10)
openweather9
weather-data7
web-application5
api5
react4
javascript3
mxchip3
tflint2
iot1
azure1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
northDacoder/javascript-open-weather-maps-api
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
apireactopenweatherjavascriptweb-application
caitlinhall/geekup-with-geekettes
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Twin Cities Geekettes July Workshop
Contributions:3 PRs in 4 years 9 months
twinworkshop
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