I've worked with Ryan several times now and referred him to friends who have all informed me afterwards that they intend to work with him again when they have an opportunity.

Ryan has:

1. a slow, thoughtful approach to UI/UX design for your product. he wants to genuinely understand your needs first

2. meticulous attention to detail (unreasonably so, which is good because it lets me be lazier)

3. writes reusable, clean, well commented code (javascript and well structured html and well organized sass),

4. makes working with him easy/low time cost by writing to your codebase and committing to your django/rails project directly in a fork, rather than forcing you to take html/css/js and adapt it back into your templating system

If you're looking for a front end guy who will think about your product from the perspective of another founder rather than a contractor trying to squeeze you for a week of pay, you need to at least start a conversation with him.

Happy to provide more details on my experience working with him as well, just drop me an email.