Ryan Burst
Founder at Pixel Forge LLC
Town of Penfield, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Burst is a founder and senior web application engineer with 13+ years of professional experience delivering client-facing systems for brands like Nordstrom, Discover, Continental Tires and Macmillan. He excels at leading distributed teams, mentoring engineers, and driving architecture and delivery across full-stack stacks including Node.js, React, Prisma, and modern deployment platforms like Vercel and Netlify. Long embedded in the agency world, he pairs rigorous engineering standards with pragmatic trade-offs to meet budgets and tight timelines, and has built long-lived internal products such as an Applicant Tracking System and Purchase Order system that lasted a decade in production. As founder of Pixel Forge he now helps small businesses modernize digital experiences affordably, blending Jamstack and WordPress solutions. He holds an MS in Human–Computer Interaction from RIT and brings a passion for peer education—regularly giving technical talks and one-on-one mentorship. Outside work he’s a comic-book creator and D&D enthusiast, which fuels his creative approach to product design and storytelling.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Human Computer Interaction, Masters Human Computer Interaction at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
plugin6
unity3d5
configuration-manager3
migration3
mysql2
database2
bem2
configuration-management1
tooling1
gulp1
sass1
boilerplate1
frontend1
starter-kit1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ryanburst/doomsday
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
Custom doomsday clock for project countdowns.
Contributions:19 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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ryanburst/comic-lettering
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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