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 (90)
javscript10
utility10
pattern9
prefetch9
fetch-api9
module-loader9
loader9
pattern-lab9
api8
preprocessor8
front-end-development8
scroll8
browserify8
boilerplate8
fetch8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DEGJS/easing
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
Javascript animation easing functions
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
animation-cssanimationjavascripteasing-functionsjavascript-animation
deg-skeletor/skeletor-plugin-postcss
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
A PostCSS Skeletor plugin
Contributions:7 PRs, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years
sassskeletorcsspluginpostcss
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