Ryan Land Email & Phone Number

North Vancouver, BC, CA

• App: searchable as “Guide to JPM’24” on both app store
• Designed, built and deployed a Flutter-based mobile application for one of the foremost global healthcare conferences annually.
• Designed, built, and managed the server-side components supporting the mobile application with a content management and data delivery system.
• Liaised directly with the Managing Director [current Chair of Life Sciences BC] and senior representatives of BIO.org to revise and craft the right blend of features versus MVP for each year cycle.

• Designed, built and deployed backend core data ingestion and client-matching logic that matched medical patients with pharmaceutical trials.
• Optimised system to efficiently process millions of potential matches daily with limited resources.
• Managed compliance with personal data protection in a highly regulated industry.
• Migrated ageing Nativescript mobile application multiple releases to “current” and re-released for the latest mobile platform API’s.

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Specified, set up, and deployed bespoke Linux hosting for clients in Vancouver’s Harbour Centre Colocation facility.
• Configured, maintained and secured physical and virtual Linux servers.
• Set up an on-prem OpenShift container platform for client use.
• Provided ongoing Linux/Open Source solutions consulting.
• Small business support: websites, mail services, local network, workstations.

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Designed, built and deployed an end-to-end technical solution for in-store digital signage.
• Clients included Canadian Tire, Footlocker, BC Hydro, Adidas and a subsidiary of Translink.
• Developed a system to manage content to hundreds of nodes over unreliable client networks.
• Implemented node management and monitoring to ensure maximum display uptime.
• Responsible for technical presentations to potential clients.
• Embedded systems development and testing on x86 and RISC development boards.

Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• ICBC, Central 1 Credit Union, Kumho Tire Canada, Tourism Kelowna, Boston YWCA, Kimber Resources, David Suzuki Foundation
• Met with client and/or agency representatives to understand business requirements.
• Designed and built front-end digital forms, web calculators and locator tools.
• Designed and built back-end components and admin tools to manage content, receive form submissions, manage friend referral and reminder systems, public contests, polls, news, and promotions.
• Interpreted customer/agency graphical design mockups to build entire ground-up solutions.
• Accepted mathematical models by Excel spreadsheet, converted the models to dual server side and frontend javascript-based solutions.

• Solely responsible for the development and testing of an extended capability of a rate-limiting module for the Apache web server, the key to resolving several clients' bandwidth and abuse management issues.
• Co-developed a web control panel for shared hosting management that provided users with a streamlined set of self-service support features and administrators a single place to monitor the shared servers, with.
• Renovation of existing ageing Laravel - Vue-based project to fully latest editions of all dependencies.

• Co-SysAdmin of a technologies group that serviced the growing needs of 2 “dotcom” startups.
• Specified, configured and maintained all hardware and online facing services that delivered the company's services to the world.
• Supported both startup development teams with any needed Linux desktop configuration support.
• Brought in a dedicated T3 fiber service and built out custom server room onsite, complete with cooling and raised tile flooring and racking loaded with 65 then state of the art servers.

• Specified and implemented multi-building network upgrades.
• Specified and replaced the ageing company central server.
• Established new company-wide backup protocols.
• As an outside consulting contractor on a fixed 6-month timeline: executed all primary goals, documented all systems and procedures, aided in recruiting permanent onsite support technicians, and handed over ongoing.