Ryan Lay Email & Phone Number

San Diego, CA, US

- Directed summer fellowship program with 2 cohorts for 5 fellows, leading the research and development of a redesigned Arduino IDE to support lantern development for our Coding Culture program.- Directed Coding Culture program which introduces software and embedded systems thinking and programming cultural artifacts such as lanterns for the following {.

- Supporting hackathon organizers and hackers at events across North America

- Developed and taught a summer camp using VEX robotics themed around the Olympics for 12 high school students.- Developed and taught a quarter-long LEGO spike robotics class introducing various mechanical principles for 12 middle school students.- Developed and taught a quarter-long Creative Coding class teaching P5.js, an animation library for 12 high.

La Jolla Shores, California, United States

- Developing an Extended Reality (XR) embodied coding environment (ECE), using a mix of tools from Unity to Express.js to create a node-based coding experience to manipulate 3D objects and scenes.- Presenting a demo of the ECE at SIGCSE'TS 2024, a research conference for CS Education.- Refactoring and reorganization of two year old architecture to conform.

San Diego, California, United States

- Mentored a group of 4 students by tutoring, grading, and offering catered guidance for college- Orchestrated and executed three weekly large-scale team-building events and casual social game nights over the course of 5 weeks

San Diego, California, United States

- Leading an organization of over 200 members in K-12 computer science outreach to local, under-served communities. - Overseeing 3 distinct programs serving over 300 grade school students per year- Overhauling volunteer onboarding, recruiting pipeline, and incentivization to increase member engagement and retention and to introduce over 60 new members.

San Diego, California, United States

- Developed 4 computer science workshops and 17 workshops for grades 6-12 on topics {AI Literacy, UI/UX, Linden-meyer Recursive Structures, and Genetic Algorithms}- Developed and taught a robotics summer camp over the course of 5 days at the Monarch School using LEGO Mindstorms culminating in a 95% retention rate.

San Diego, California, United States

- Directed hackathon serving 70 hackers in the first in-person hackathon since Covid-19- Directed team of 30 staff members, collaborating with 4 student orgs, $15,000 budget, 8 sponsors- Designed, implemented, and wrote intro to web-dev starter kit using vanilla tech stack JS/HTML/CSS

San Diego, California, United States

Wrote and developed a CRUD tutorial for High School Hackers. This kit was designed for hackers with little to no experience programming in JavaScript.Technologies used: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, DOM, Git, Local Storage.

La Jolla

- Built and maintained 5 raspberry pi clusters to support multi-monitor displays at Kamil Art Gallery- Creating Networked File Systems and teaching MPI Python/PyGame library to support 50+ ICAM students- Writing scripts and cronjobs to automate the cycling display of 50+ projects for the final course show case

Long Beach, California, United States

- Developed push notification micro-service on AWS using Java Springboot, Docker/Kubernetes, Postgres SQL handling over 5 million notifications per week through Kafka message queues and REST API- Migrated messaging services for player progression from ActiveMQ to Kafka increasing redundancy, throughput, and scalability while adding logging and message.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: . 2021-2023 - CS foreach President; 2021-2022 - Director of TritonHacks; 2021-2022 - Workshop lead HKN.

Education record

Activities and Societies: . 2017-2018 - Founded FIRST Robotics Team ET Brigade #13089 2018-2019 - Yearbook Photographer 2018-2018 - Eagle.