Andrew Ruder
Staff Software Engineer at Papa
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ruder is a Staff Software Engineer with 23 years of hands-on experience building embedded systems, firmware, and distributed cloud services across startups and defense contractors. He combines deep low-level expertise in Linux, C/C++, VHDL, drivers, and radios with modern cloud and orchestration skills (AWS, Kubernetes, DynamoDB) to troubleshoot and ship systems spanning constrained embedded devices to large-scale services. Known for bridging hardware and software—porting bootloaders and kernels, designing RF/FPGA systems, and implementing networking protocols—he also mentors others and contributes practical tooling and fixes upstream. Based in New York but originally from Kansas City, he brings a pragmatic, generalist approach: if it isn’t Microsoft or Java, he’s probably the engineer you call for the gnarly problems.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering / RF, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering / RF at Kansas State University
Github Skills (200)
procedure10
libgit210
windows10
code-completion10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
publish10
subversion10
libuv10
nvim10
hacklang10
unix10
async10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
aeruder/slsnif
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Build improvements and bugfixes on slsnif
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
improvementsbugfixes
aeruder/zsh-prompt-aeruder
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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