I'm Ryan. I've worked for the past 10 years as an electrical engineer designing sports stadiums 🏗️. It was incredibly fun, rewarding, and challenging. That being said, I've always had this thing with computers... I always thought programming is just so cool. Finally, during my move from the US to New Zealand, I decided to pursue my dream:. I hung up my t-square (well Revit and CAD software) and I've been soaking up as much info on programming as I can. This has led to "traditional" self-taught routes (Helloooo Pluralsight, Youtube tutorials, etc) to places I never thought I'd be (section leader for Stanford's CS106A: Code in Place!). Now, I'm a junior developer developer working at a great company.

It's been a scary, rewarding, fun, and stressful time. I love learning, so right now even though it kind of feels like I committed career Hari-kari, it feels like I'm where I'm supposed to be 🏠.

• I'm currently working as a junior developer, mainly in the backend of a c# application
• I was fortunate to be selected as a section leader for Code in Place: Stanford's online offering of their Intro to Computer Sciecne course
• I'm fascinated by software architecture
• I have 10 years of experience as an Electrical Engineer designing professional and collegiate sports stadia, arena, and ballparks. I left this position when I moved from Denver CO to Wellington NZ