Ryan Vandersmith

Ryan Vandersmith is an R&D software engineer with over 10 years of experience and a deep self-taught background in meteorology. He builds weather forecasting and analysis tools used by photographers, storm chasers, and researchers, including Mesoview (skychaser.mesoview.app), a cloud inversion forecast tool, a mountain wave visualization tool, and a stepwise CAPE/CIN contribution to SounderPy. Professionally, he worked on Caffeine.ai, an AI website builder, and led Motoko programming-language tooling, including a VS Code extension with more than 85,000 installs. He also has experience with cross-chain EVM integrations, developer-experience products, UX research, Rust research software at the University of Colorado Boulder, consulting, and public-sector software.

Consulted with startups and small businesses on web technology, product requirements, and implementation. Specialized in full-stack Progressive Web Apps built with React, Tailwind or Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Webpack, and Workbox.

Projects ranged from client-facing applications to data-rich tools, with an emphasis on translating business needs into dependable and usable software.

Delivered full-stack Progressive Web Apps and custom web products for startups and small businesses.

Freelance Software Consultant

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