Readme: Ryan Hinkle

Hi, my name is Ryan Hinkle (he/his/him). I am a Managing Consultant, Software Engineer at Inspire 11. I am looking forward to working with you.

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Who am I?

Non-work

I live on the west side of Michigan where I enjoy spending time with my friends and family. I like to spend my time collecting hobbies and learning new things.

• Cooking
• Home improvement things 🔨 🏠
• Custom Keyboards ⌨️
• post-apocalyptic non fiction & self help books 📖 🪱
• Pottery
• Photograph 📷
• Dungeons and dragons 🐉

Work

I began my career developing custom WordPress websites. I enjoy solving customers' problems with software and processes that fit their needs. I had the opportunity to work on a finTech application, where I learned about developing enterprise solutions. I continue to hone my skills working on financial tech applications and products.

Hard Skills Strengths

• Application Architecture within a system
• Frontend + API Integration
• Application Infrastructure
• Frontend Development
• Application Testing Methods

Soft Skills Strengths

• Leadership | Manager Skills
• Promoting team health and collaboration.
• Consulting Practices
• 1-1 Conversation with peers
• How to give challenging feedback
• Communication
• Leading scrum practices like retro and standup.

Goals

Learning goals

Current Learning Goals

• Practical use of AI coding tools
• Learn an additional programming language (Go | C#/.net )
• Grow my technical skills in the following areas:
• Grow my leadership | manager skills
• Grow Consulting Skills
• How to support my direct reports to achieve their career goals.
• How to be an effective manager of humans and how to communicate clear expectations to peers and team members.

Past Learning Goals

• gilded rose kata: practicing refactoring within a legacy system.
• I am interested in team member enablement and project onboarding.

Career Goals

• Unknonwn at this time.

Past Career Goals

• Sr. Engineer
• Become a manager of people

You can lean on me to...

• Talking through your thoughts or just general "rubber ducking."
• Providing feedback & working thur your questions or thoughts
• Application Architecture within a system
• Helping with communication or disagreements
• Testing strategies
• Taking the con|ownership and delivering
• Anything about home improvement

How to support me as a person

• I love feedback on how I can be a better human. My "door" is always open to giving feedback. Throw time on my calendar happy to meet up!
• If something I say is not clear or concise, let me know Id love to dive deeper so you can get a better understanding.

Ways of working together

• I am not the strongest with spelling and grammar. I have a bit of dyslexia, so words can be challenging for me. If you see me type a word, you may point it out, but let me find out how to spell it correctly on my own. Thank you for giving me grace on this :)
• I may seem like an extrovert; however, I am an introvert. I do need time to recharge my social battery. I will be vocal when I need a break.

Teamwork preferences

• Screenshare: Zoom | Pop | Slack
• Chat: Slack
• Whiteboard: Miro ❤️

Technical preferences

• JetBrains Products
• Mac/Unix
• Frontend + API Integration > Just backend
• TypeScript > Javascript
• Kotlin > Java
• Git for version control
• AWS
• CircleCi

Feedback preferences

I do best with 1-1 conversion for feedback; however, I am happy with any feedback that comes thru Slack. Email is my least responsive mode of communication. If I am free on my calendar, I do not mind an impromptu meeting to chat 😄.

Giving feedback on this document

Do you have thoughts about my readme? Please send me a message, and let's chat! :)