Ryan Lockard is a self-taught junior software engineer based in Warren, Michigan, who pairs nine years of hands-on customer-facing work with growing full-stack engineering chops. While working in operations roles like shift lead and delivery driver he developed reliability, customer empathy, and practical training skills that he brings to team-oriented engineering tasks. On GitHub he contributed to the popular RedwoodJS framework—improving TypeScript support, Storybook integration, and documentation—demonstrating an ability to refactor legacy code and add test fixtures. Currently pursuing formal CS education while holding a software engineering certificate, he is motivated to learn fast, ship pragmatic solutions, and translate real-world service experience into dependable developer contributions.
9 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, CTE, 3.45 GPA, High School Diploma, CTE, 3.45 GPA at Cane Bay High School
Certificate, Software Engineering, A, Certificate, Software Engineering, A at Southern Careers Institute
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Trident Technical College
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the RedwoodJS CLI, focusing on enhancing TypeScript support for the function generator command. They refactored and converted code to TypeScript, added testing fixtures, and addressed ESLint warnings. Additionally, the user implemented a custom `useAuth` pass-through for `RedwoodApolloProvider`, improved Storybook integration with support for custom `manager.js`, and added documentation to validation options.
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches, 9 comments in 3 months
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