Ryan Buckley

Frontend: React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Shadcn/UI, Radix, React Native / Expo

Backend: Node, Express, MongoDB, TypeScript

Design: Figma

• Engineering Team Leadership
  • Problem: A growing frontline product team needed technical direction, career growth, and predictable delivery.
  • Solution: Manage four engineers directly and coordinate delivery across a six-person group within an 8–9 person cross-functional unit. Built the team’s operating system — working agreements, code-review norms, on-call runbook, and cycle planning — won a direct report’s promotion from SE1 to SE2, and cut QA rework from 34% to 24% quarter-over-quarter.
• AI-Native Engineering Practice
  • Problem: As AI raised engineering throughput, the real bottleneck moved downstream to design, QA, and scoping.
  • Solution: Drove deep, disciplined AI adoption — custom repo-committed skills (code review, PR authoring, QA agents) and agentic workflows — stood up the QA team’s Playwright end-to-end suite (AI-accelerated), and re-architected planning and dev→QA handoffs around the new downstream constraints.
• Courses — Monetized LMS + AI Builder
  • Problem: Customers needed a way to create and monetize training, and the business needed a flagship for usage-based pricing.
  • Solution: Launched Courses, a usage-based LMS now ~30% of total user traffic, and its AI Template Builder (prompt → generated course, theme & CSS) delivered from spec to production in ~3 weeks. Architected non-POS user support to unlock state-certified vendor training — a new line projected at ~$100k/month.
• Payouts & Design System
  • Problem: Monthly reward payouts carried a 10-day delay, and inconsistent UI patterns slowed every team.
  • Solution: Built an automated payout system with custom UI controls, cutting processing time by 70%, and architected a centralized component library on Shadcn/UI + TailwindCSS (replacing MUI) for reuse and design consistency.

Frontend: Material UI, React, typescript, Appollo Client, GraphQL

Backend: Prisma, PostgreSQL, typescript

Design: Figma

• Materials List Interface
  • Problem: Customers lacked visibility into project materials during early renovation phases.
  • Solution: Developed a React/GraphQL interface enabling real-time materials tracking and editing, improving project transparency and reducing customer inquiries.
• Promotions Management Tool
  • Problem: Sales team relied on engineering for promotion deployment, creating bottlenecks.
  • Solution: Built a self-service CRUD interface using React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, enabling sales team autonomy in promotion management within one day.
• Core Services Platform
  • Problem: Multiple Systems and spreadsheets were used to track a projects progress resulting in miscommunication and errors.
  • Solution: I worked with the core services team to build a set of internal tools to manage the lifecycle of a project/lead from start to finish. Built with react, typescript, prisma, and graphql.

Frontend: HTML, CSS/SCSS, TailwindCSS, Javascript, React, Storybook

Design: Figma

• UI/UX Design System
  • Problem: Lack of standardized design system led to inconsistent user experiences across products.
  • Solution: Led competitive analysis and user research to establish design patterns, resulting in a comprehensive UI/UX system adopted across multiple product lines.
• React Application Architecture
  • Problem: Complex agricultural data needed intuitive presentation for end users.
  • Solution: Architected and developed React components following atomic design principles, resulting in a modular, maintainable codebase with 75% test coverage.

Frontend: HTML, CSS/SCSS, Javascript, TailwindCSS, Vue, Webpack, Semantic UI, Bulma, Twig

Backend: CraftCMS, PHP, Stripe API, Webhooks

• Digital Transformation Initiative
  • Problem: COVID-19 threatened business continuity for a 70+ year old training company reliant on in-person instruction.
  • Solution: Rapidly developed and deployed an e-learning platform with integrated payment processing, enabling complete business digitization within 3 months and generating $30k/month in revenue.
• Seminar Registration
  • Problem: The firm needed a way for custoemrs to register for their training seminars. They had rigid business rules that needed to be followed which made it difficult to implement a 3rd party solution.
  • Solution: Created a system that allowed users to register their teams and automated $100k/month in billing processes.

Frontend: HTML, CSS/SCSS, Javascript, React, React Native, Vue, Webpack, Semantic UI, Bulma, ThreeJS

Backend: Express, Cognito, DynamoDb, Lambdas, API Gateways, Node, Craft CMS, Firebase

• Engineering Leadership
  • Problem: Growing development team needed technical direction and mentorship.
  • Solution: Led cross-functional team of 3 developers across multiple projects, implementing code reviews and pair programming.
• Product Innovation
  • Problem: Business needed rapid validation of new digital product concepts.
  • Solution: Established rapid prototyping workflow using React Native, reducing concept-to-demo time from months to weeks while maintaining code quality.