Ryan Johnston
Web Developer Consultant at COUNTRY ® Financial
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Johnston is a web developer consultant with 12 years of experience building responsive, mobile-first web applications and converting them into native apps via PhoneGap. Based in Bloomington, Illinois, he blends front-end expertise in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript with back-end work in PHP and MySQL to deliver dynamic, SEO-minded sites and social-media-driven campaigns. His background includes systems administration managing a 12-server CentOS cluster and DevOps contributions to projects like VagrantPress, where he modernized WordPress dev environments by removing legacy dependencies and integrating Composer and PHP QA tooling. At Teleologic he designed SCORM-compliant eLearning platforms and database-driven solutions, demonstrating comfort across multimedia, LMS integration, and server-side tuning. He’s equally at home optimizing infrastructure (LDAP, mail, DNS, SSL) as he is crafting user-facing experiences, which gives him a practical edge when turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable products.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Moline High SchoolBachelor of Science, Telecommunications Management, Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications Management at Illinois State University
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Github Skills (15)
puppeteer10
devops10
vagrant10
composer10
puppet10
php9
automation9
automations9
wordpress8
cicd8
jquery-ui6
html6
css6
menu6
nav6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vagrantpress/vagrantpress
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
A WordPress Development Environment With Vagrant/Puppet
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 24 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on improving the development environment for a WordPress project using Vagrant and Puppet. Their contributions included removing outdated dependencies like PEAR, installing and configuring Composer, and integrating PHP quality assurance tools. They also set up a global path variable and added a path variable to the Vagrant user's .bashrc, streamlining the development workflow. Furthermore, they modified the WordPress database configuration.
vagrantpuppetwordpressansiblephp
johnstonian/simple-responsive-layouts
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 8 months
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