Ryan Heap
UI Architect at Merkle
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Heap is a UI Architect with 13 years of front-end experience based in Kansas City, specializing in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, responsive design and progressive enhancement. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles to leading UI teams and shaping front-end architecture at DEG and Merkle, bridging product needs with scalable, standards-driven implementations. Early entrepreneurial work as a co-founder building a RESTful-backed, AJAX-rich planning app shows he pairs UX sensibility with pragmatic API and mobile integration. Comfortable across legacy .NET stacks and modern web standards, he brings deep experience translating complex business rules into usable interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (54)
utility10
fetch-api9
pattern-lab9
module-loader8
salesforce-marketing-cloud7
marketing-cloud7
frontend7
cjs6
smooth6
scroll6
animated6
plugin6
react5
viewport5
event-emitter5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deg-skeletor/skeletor-cli
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
The command line interface for Skeletor
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
command-line-interface
degdigital/UIEcosystem
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
DEG UI Code Standards, Design Patterns, Frameworks & Tooling
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
code-standardsdesign-patterns
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