Roger Steve Ruiz

Embedded software generalist contractor working alongside the CDC

• Collaborating on a cross-functional team composed of researchers, designers, managers, application engineers, & data engineers

• Architected project documentation encompasing software architecture, decisions, run books, guides, and documentation in a centralize private hub

• Build automation pipelines and shared ergonomics around developer experience for common and vital operations and maintenance in both macOS and Windows environments

• Facilitating collaborations across platforms & teams

• Developing a cross-functional playbook for internal best practices & operational boundaries

Engineering leader across infrastructure security & application engineering practices

• Lead cross-functional teams of application engineers & infrastructure engineers through numerous client-facing feature work

• Architected project & company-wide documentation portals

• Lead various weekly & monthly meetings around topics of mentorship, front-end, back-end, & Linux with attendance of 10 or more collegues

• Provide career mentorship & career development to engineers specializing across infrastructure, security, & application development

• Drafted & published ADRs for various process & technical improvements across projects & the engineering department

Senior engineer for the Terraform Enterprise (TFE) team.

• Contributed to the architecture & system design for Terraform Enterprise

• Documented custom air-gapped installation process

• Collaborated with customer support engineers to improve team's feedback loop

• Improved developer on-boarding & increased team size by 50%

Built, maintained, & operated a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using OSS Cloud Foundry

• Managed team of 8 engineers across different specializations

• Designed & published compliance diagrams for FedRamp JAB Authorization

• Lead training & workshops for cloud.gov features to achieve broader adoption across the US federal government

• Participated in on-call rotation & incident response training

Full-stack software engineer maintaining various open-source software projects such as vote.gov, US Web Design System, and more.

• Bootstrapped & maintained various open-source projects

• Architected release process & trained engineers on how to maintain & operate the release process going forward

• Delivered Authority to Operate (ATO) for the 18F internal time-keeping SaaS – Tock written in Django

• Managed & grew four engineers from junior to mid-level

• Founding engineer for the vote.gov portal

• Founding engineer for the US Web Design System

Engineering consultant for client-side templates integrated into a Laravel backend for various clients

• Prioritized trade-offs to ensure on-time delivery

• Refactored inherited-code to be composable

• Built a shared design system across clients

• Integrated Twig templates into Laravel framework

Engineering consultant for improving developer workflow & business practices for delivering software

• Improved developer workflows to increase project delivery by 110%

• Mentored developers in modern software development lifecycle best practices

• Architected self-documenting practices using automated tooling with JSDoc

• Created blueprints & patterns for common offerings across products

Senior engineer leading the launch of The Scene using the Ember.js framework

• Architected a high-traffic Ember.js application with a legacy Ruby on Rails backend

• Built tooling for keeping internal libraries up-to-date to improve developer experience & team velocity

• Documented changelogs to ensure quarterly upgrades operated smoothly

• Created customizable Vagrant boxes to facilitate easier development environments for team members

Engineered internal libraries & built templates for various server-side languages for various clients

• Lead the transition of the engineering department from SVN to Git version control in first three months

• Built, operated, & maintained a Gitolite instance

• Architected component & design system for use across clients

• Trained & mentored server-side developers in client-side development

• Trained & mentored developers in Linux tools & automation