RYAN ZERNACH
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
(an ever-evolving work-in-progress)
LAST UPDATED: 12/13/2020
I follow my dreams, which has most recently led me to the island of Miami Beach, where I work remotely as Data Science Tutor for students at dozens of colleges/universities, such as UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Georgia Tech!
Because I’m passionate about simplifying complex topics, I also remotely coach people how to develop their own websites, build their own successful brands, and manage their own small businesses.
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 handful of local small businesses,
which taught me to create and organize websites and creative tech projects for clients.
Nearly 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 and money.
However, 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 re-embark on my Software Engineering journey.
Having built small businesses, 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! But characteristics, on the other hand, take time to gradually evolve in oneself — they’re more of a mindset that I’ve consciously chosen to embrace over the years…
- 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
- 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 a positive force in the world
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WRITTEN BY: RYAN ZERNACH