Alberto Ruiz
Sr. Engineering Manager, Red Hat In-Vehicle OS
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Ruiz is a senior engineering manager with 18 years of experience leading teams that bridge Linux kernel graphics, audio, virtualization and bootloader stacks for enterprise and in-vehicle systems. At Red Hat he directs cross-disciplinary engineering and OEM engagements to deliver upstream-first solutions spanning KVM, DRM, Wayland, Mesa and QEMU, while previously managing desktop apps, hardware enablement and cloud-focused engineering at Amazon and Canonical. A long-time free software advocate, he pairs technical leadership with community governance and developer tooling work—evidenced by documentation contributions to widely used projects like NetworkManager. Based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he excels at translating OEM requirements into upstream roadmaps and making complex platform integration predictable for product teams. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who combines deep systems knowledge with customer-facing pre-sales technical expertise.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BsC, Computer Science, BsC, Computer Science at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSecondary Studies, Science and Technology, Secondary Studies, Science and Technology at Colegio Arenas Bilingual School
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
api-documentation10
documentation10
c174
c114
vala3
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NetworkManager/NetworkManager
Jan 2012 - Oct 2012
Read-only Mirror of the freedesktop.org repository. Please make pull requests against freedesktop.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:13 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the project's documentation. Their work involved updating and clarifying documentation for the `libnm-glib` library, focusing on functions such as `nm_access_point_connection_valid` and `nm_device_filter_connections`. They also corrected documentation errors, such as fixing section header names and clarifying the ownership of connection objects in secret agent callbacks. Furthermore, the user added detailed examples and explanations in the documentation to better guide the user.
windowselectronpull-requestsfreedesktopread-only
aruiz/webp-pixbuf-loader
Jan 2011 - Dec 2022
WebP Image format GdkPixbuf loader
Contributions:17 releases, 13 reviews, 19 commits in 12 years 1 month
gdk-pixbufwebp
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