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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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 🐉
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.
- 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.
- gilded rose kata: practicing refactoring within a legacy system.
- I am interested in team member enablement and project onboarding.
- Unknonwn at this time.
- Sr. Engineer
- Become a manager of people
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Screenshare: Zoom | Pop | Slack
- Chat: Slack
- Whiteboard: Miro ❤️
- JetBrains Products
- Mac/Unix
- Frontend + API Integration > Just backend
- TypeScript > Javascript
- Kotlin > Java
- Git for version control
- AWS
- CircleCi
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 😄.
Do you have thoughts about my readme? Please send me a message, and let's chat! :)