Ryan Smee
Senior Frontend Engineer at SideQuest
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Smee is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in the Greater Cambridge area with nine years of experience building user-focused web and VR interfaces. He combines startup grit—co-founding and exiting Safepoint in 2022—with senior engineering roles at SourceBreaker and now SideQuest VR, blending product intuition with hands-on frontend craft. His open-source contributions include substantial work on the ngneat/falso fake-data library, where he implemented feature-rich text and entity generators and improved test coverage and code organization. Comfortable across the full front-end stack, he brings practical UX sensibility from early freelance design work through to shipping complex VR-facing experiences. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges product and engineering to ship polished, testable front-end systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
ISTQB Software Testing Foundation ISTQB Foundation Software Testing, ISTQB Software Testing Foundation ISTQB Foundation Software Testing at ISTQBBachelor of Science (BSc) BSc, Bachelor of Science (BSc) BSc at Coventry University
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Github Skills (13)
text-generation10
data-generation10
unit-testing10
javascript10
lib10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
sql-server6
rxjs-observables6
php6
jestjs6
pdo6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ngneat/falso
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
All the Fake Data for All Your Real Needs 🙂
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 134 commits, 60 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `falso` library by implementing and refactoring features, adding unit tests, and improving code organization. Their work included updating the `rgb()` function to dynamically generate RGB strings, incorporating a shared `getRandomInRange` function, and adding new functions for text generation (including character counts and text ranges). Furthermore, they were involved in adding functions related to text and entity generation like airport, credit card, and flight details.
data-analysispythondatadata-sciencedummy-data
theryansmee/mocktail-docs
Nov 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:22 releases, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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