H. Ryan Jones
hryanjones@gmail.com • (206) 432-7560 • Seattle, WA • LinkedIn • github
Summary
Customer-focused frontend engineer with experience building fast, user-friendly, data-driven web applications
using
Typescript, Javascript, React, and CSS. Experienced with CLIs and API servers in Ruby (Rails), and some Java, and
NodeJS. Passionate about listening to customers to iterate on user experience and flow. Interested in
visualization,
learning, and empowering users to get stuff done.
Top Skills
- OS & coding: Typescript, JavaScript, Ruby, Linux, git, NodeJS, some Python, some Java
- Web focused: React, HTML/DOM, CSS/Sass, Fetch, Vite, microfrontends, Rails, Vitest, Jest, UX
design, some web security, some accessibility, some Vue, some Webpack
- Other: product ownership iteration and support, process improvement, data analysis (Excel,
AWS
QuickSight), teaching/tutoring
Experience Summary (2007-2024)
| Company |
Role |
Start |
End |
Years |
|
| (freelance) |
Freelance/personal projects |
Jan 2025 |
|
0.5 |
□ |
| Amazon |
Frontend Engineer II |
Sep 2014 |
Jan 2025 |
10.3 |
□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ |
| Amazon |
Technical Support Engineer |
Mar 2011 |
Sep 2014 |
3.5 |
□□□□□□□ |
| (various) |
Tutor and office temp |
Jan 2010 |
Mar 2011 |
1.2 |
□□ |
| Peace Corps |
Education Volunteer, Uganda |
May 2007 |
Aug 2009 |
2.2 |
□□□□ |
Professional Experience
- Frontend Engineer II — Amazon Web Services (3 roles) (Seattle, WA)
- Codex (internal): Improved, fixed, and supported Amazon's internal code review and code browsing
sites for 5 years. Delivered new features including UX design, prototyping, implementation, and iteration
based on customer feedback (e.g. new code review dashboard, multi dry run build, artifact browser). Resolved
many customer experience issues by self-initiating fixes such as unwanted email reduction, a11y colors,
introducing comment filtering, and correcting code inter-diff. Additionally, sunsetted a legacy service,
while
preserving web links (Devcentral). Helped shape team priorities by managing the product backlog and
contributing to product direction.
- QuickSight: Implemented features for QuickSight, Amazon's BI analytics product for ~4 years. This
included KPI and geospatial charts, and an anomaly exploration page. Also led a multi-team effort to upgrade
from React 13 to 16 and drove fixing of many customer experience issues.
- Meetings (internal): Designed, implemented, and supported a new internal website, Amazon Meetings
for ~1.5 years. The site filled a gap in searching for meeting times with appropriate conference rooms.
- Technical Support Engineer — Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA): Provided deep
technical support for a wide array of services (compute, storage, DNS, content delivery, load balancing, coding)
for a range of customer backgrounds for ~2 years. This transitioned into ~1 year of development on internally
used
web-based tools, dashboards, and scripts.
- Tutor and office temp — (various) (Seattle, WA)
- Education Volunteer — US Peace Corps (Uganda, Africa): Supported elementary school
student teachers with classroom observation and weekend classes for 1 year. For the remaining 1.5 years I
funded,
sourced, and installed a school computer lab and created a basic computer skills curriculum, which I taught to
teachers, students, and community members.
(references available on request)
Other
- (Significant Side Project) Guess My Word:
A
daily word guessing puzzle with ~1.5K users per day. The main game is frontend-only in Vue.js and a
Node
server supports the backend for the leaderboard.
- (Volunteering) Tutoring: (2018-2023) One-on-one tutoring of elementary through high school
students in Columbia City neighborhood.
- Other interests: Visual Logic Puzzles, Biking, Board games, Mountain biking, Rollberblading,
Climbing
Education
- 2002-2006: BS cum laude with College Honors in Physics at University of Washington GPA: 3.85
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