Ryan Erickson Email & Phone Number

Prior Lake, Mn, Us

Prior Lake, Mn, Us

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Hack the Future is an organization that focuses on volunteer work to implement web-based applications to assist various non-profit groups.My responsibilities include:• Manage web hosting of each team's finished projects• Create educational workshops to teach other members about web development and MERN stack• Developed the back-end for my team's calendar/scheduling website • Provide troubleshooting support to assist developers and teams with their project

Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States

• Led my school’s main robotics team of over 30 members, successfully resulting in our team qualifying for the world-wide FRC Championship during my senior year• Mentored younger teams throughout my school district from all grades K-12• Organized classes and projects to introduce new members to programming• Directed a software team of 2-4 members to fully program a completely new robot every year• Implemented a more modern code structure to allow support for the kinematics of a new multi directional drivetrain, resulting in greatly improved driver control• Worked on a computer vision system using OpenCV and Python to identify various colored targets and determine their orientation. This system was also able to identify AprilTags and use them to estimate the robot’s position• Created an efficient odometer system to track the robot’s movement, allowing for successful autonomous robot control