RYAN ZERNACH
MOBILE APP DEVELOPER
AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
(an ever-evolving work-in-progress)
LAST UPDATED: 08/16/2022
SOUNDTRACK CREDITS: Freeze (by Kygo)
I follow my dreams, which has most recently led me to the island of Miami Beach, where I work as the lead mobile app developer for a fully remote sports league management software company. When I came onboard, their mobile app reviews were not good, so my job is to turnaround the user’s experience, repair the bugs that cause pain-points, and organize the codebase for future generations. In my free time, I enjoy programming my passion project, which is an iOS/Android app called The STEM Tech Network.
Having run in several half marathons, I regularly go jogging with my Transylvanian Hound (Brady) for long distances at fast speeds in hot temperatures. I’m 29 years old and my dog is 4 years old.
For as long as I can remember,
I’ve deeply enjoyed creating and organizing.
It started as a kid with creating and organizing a wide variety of extracurriculars in high school,
which evolved into creating and organizing a couple of local small businesses,
which taught me to create and organize websites and creative tech projects for clients.
Ten years ago, after graduating from high school, I attended Georgia Southern University to earn my Computer Science degree. After two years of university, I created and organized my own landscape design business (instaSod.com) and professional Christmas lighting business (CustomizedChristmasLights.com) — and was financially independent for three years because of it! Most of my time was spent remotely managing every digitized facet of my business because technology saves teams time & money.
For this reason, I felt as if I was being drawn back to the tech/software industry because the scale at which I can help solve problems is far greater, due to software’s economies of scale. That’s what led me to Lambda School (now known as BloomTech), where I learned Python, databases, and machine learning. Upon completing the curriculum, I worked as a teaching assistant and tutor for data science & web development students from dozens of universities across the nation. While helping my students excel in their courses, I learned Javascript on-the-job, and made a New Year’s Resolution to learn how to write mobile apps. After creating my own apps on the app store and organizing several mobile development contracts, I now work as a full-time employee building a React Native iOS/Android mobile app. Throughout all codebases that I develop, I enjoy reducing complexity/repetitiveness and increasing consistency/explicitness.
I am magnetized by biographies about civilization’s most influential people, and have noticed certain key characteristics among them that I have concluded are components for professional success, however you may define that. These are not necessarily skills nor abilities, but they are characteristics. Skills and abilities can usually be learned very quickly! On the other hand, characteristics take time to gradually evolve in oneself — they’re more of a mindset that I’ve consciously chosen to develop over the years…
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Book Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
- Deep Work — Cal Newport
- Rebooting AI — Ernest Davis & Gary Marcus
- Measure What Matters — Larry Page
- How to Create a Mind — Ray Kurzwell
- How Successful People Lead — John C. Maxwell
- Scale: Universal Laws of Growth — Geoffrey West
- Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
- Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
- The Snowball (Warren Buffett) — Alice Schroeder
- The Everything Store (Jeff Bezos) — Brad Stone
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey
- Essentialism: Disciplined Pursuit of Life — Greg McKeown
- The Go Giver — Bob Burg & John David Mann
- The E Myth — Michael E. Gerber
- How to Win Friends & Influence People — Dale Carnegie
- The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide — Bernd Schoner
- The Four: Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook — Scott Galloway
- Marriageology — Belinda Luscombe
- The Purpose Driven Life — Rick Warren
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- Elon Musk — problem solver, futurist, leader, renewable energy advocate, serial inventor
- Leonardo DiCaprio — environmentalist, United Nations Ambassador of Peace, neurotech investor, film producer
- Oprah Winfrey — entrepreneur, influential philanthropist, producer, author, one who lifts others up
- Steve Jobs — an uncanny ability to simplify the user experience and to present the future of technology
- Barack Obama — inspirational speaker, trailblazer, equality public figure, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, US President
- Bill & Melinda Gates — use their success in the tech industry to generate an extremely positive force in the world
This outdated video states that I am a Data Scientist & Cloud-Based Solutions Engineer, which is what I studied while at Lambda School (now known as BloomTech). However, my skillset & passion has reached into the field of Mobile App Development.
I should probably make a new video eventually…
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