Ryan Kinal
Principal Engineer at SlickText
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kinal is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of web development experience, currently leading engineering at SlickText after a long tenure building web applications for McKissock and co-founding Slick Innovations. He spans front-end and back-end stacks—HTML/CSS/JavaScript, PHP and the .NET family—bringing practical product-focused architecture and feature delivery to SaaS and content-driven sites. Ryan's career began as a self-taught hobbyist and freelancer, which shaped a pragmatic, hands-on approach to solving real user problems and shipping quickly. He has held both technical leadership and CTO roles, blending project planning and code ownership to guide teams from prototype to production. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs deep institutional knowledge of web technologies with an entrepreneurial streak evident in launching SlickText. An underappreciated strength is his long-running practice of learning and adapting alongside the web as it evolved, making him comfortable with legacy systems and modern web patterns alike.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Computer Science Mathematics Art, Incomplete Computer Science Mathematics Art at SUNY Geneseo
Github Skills (4)
automation1
selenium-webdriver1
python1
selenium1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ryankinal/dnd
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years
ryankinal/haGrid
Nov 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 4 months
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