Roger Steve Ruiz

Sarasota, FL (Remote)

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 encompassing 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

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

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

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

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%

Washington D.C. (Remote)

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

Washington D.C. (Remote)

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

New York City (Remote)

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

Richmond, VA (In office)

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

New York City (Hybrid)

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

New York City (In office)

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