Ryan Hefner
Founder at OpenGraphs
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hefner is a founder and product-focused application engineer with 15+ years building delightful, usable digital experiences—from Vimeo’s Flash/HTML5 player and TV-optimized CouchMode to consumer products like Listly and multiple product studios. He blends front-end craftsmanship (React/Redux, React Native, Backbone, HTML/CSS/JS) with product design, information architecture, and API-driven back ends to ship polished consumer and enterprise tooling. At IncludeHealth he applied AI/ML and human pose estimation to remote patient monitoring, demonstrating an appetite for applying cutting-edge tech to real-world problems. An active contributor to Vimeo’s player API, he pairs deep hands-on engineering with leadership across startups and studios, and often starts projects that evolve into ongoing companies. Based in Atlanta, he’s as comfortable sketching UX flows as he is debugging cross-platform video playback edge cases.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration Management Information Systems at Bowling Green State University
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Github Skills (14)
flash10
actionscript10
api10
apidoc10
front-end-development9
event-handling8
vimeo-api6
google-chrome6
embed6
android6
vimeo6
seek6
jquery6
chromecast6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vimeo/player-api
Mar 2011 - Mar 2015
Examples for our JavaScript and ActionScript player APIs.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 push in 4 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Vimeo player API by modifying its ActionScript implementation. Their work focused on enhancing the `setSize` method, integrating the `LoaderContext` for advanced features like `Bitmap.draw` support, and ensuring proper mouse event handling. Additionally, the user addressed stage lifecycle events to manage event listeners. The commits also show updating the Moogaloop SWF URL for improved security.
actionscriptapijavascripttypescriptplayer
ryanhefner/clean-react-props
Jul 2017 - Mar 2020
🛁 Utility functions for passing clean React props to HTML and SVG elements.
Contributions:23 releases, 119 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 7 months
utility-functionsreactsvgelementsclean
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