Ryan Schenk
Software Developer at West Arete
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Schenk is a software developer with 17 years of experience building high-performance web applications, distributed data processing engines, and databases that handle hundreds of millions of values. He combines formal computer science training with an art practice, designing award-winning user interfaces and kinetic sculptures that render millions of datapoints in physical space. At West Arete and previous roles—including leading informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory and consulting work—he’s focused on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, scalable data pipelines, and rich HTML5 interfaces for scientific and embedded systems. Equally comfortable in back-end architecture and tactile interaction design, he brings computation out of the screen into tangible media. Based in Florida, he blends pragmatic engineering with creative exploration to make complex data both performant and perceptible.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA with highest honors, Computer Science, BA with highest honors, Computer Science at Clark UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (92)
firmware10
bluetooth10
wireless10
keyboard10
pubmed10
nrf5210
ruby9
distributed-computing9
ruby-on-rails9
searching9
react9
zephyr9
keymaps9
bootstrap-theme8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rschenk/synynyms
Nov 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 11 months
rschenk/surfdash
Apr 2015 - Apr 2022
A dashboard that pulls together all the surfing websites I used to check individually
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
surfingjavascriptdashboard
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