Billy Reisinger
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBilly Reisinger is a seasoned software engineering technical leader with 16 years of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance web applications and leading teams from startup-sized groups to large distributed organizations. Currently at Cisco Meraki, he drives network observability and cloud packet capture initiatives as a tech lead, scrum master, and individual contributor, collaborating across firmware, SRE, product, and vendor teams. He has deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, strong experience with Elixir/Phoenix and cloud-native stacks, and a practical focus on TDD, DevOps, security automation, and collective ownership. Billy has led global engineering organizations as a VP and director, architected production rules engines for intelligent routing, and shipped large-scale features like automated translation in healthcare platforms. An active contributor to database tooling—improving Oracle-enhanced ActiveRecord structure dumps—he pairs pragmatic engineering with a passion for open source. He combines a rare creative background in music composition with technical rigor, championing psychological safety, egoless collaboration, and small multidisciplinary teams.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Towson UniversityBFA, Music Composition, BFA, Music Composition at Tulane UniversityMaster of Music, Composition, Master of Music, Composition at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
activerecord10
oracle-database10
databases10
database-management10
indices10
sql10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
database10
foreign-keys9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rsim/oracle-enhanced
Dec 2009 - Aug 2012
Oracle enhaced adapter for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:17 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Billy primarily focused on enhancing the structure dumping capabilities of the Oracle-enhanced adapter. Their contributions involved adding support for dumping primary keys, foreign keys, unique keys, virtual columns, and indexes. The user also improved the structure drop functionality to include views, synonyms, types, packages, functions, and procedures, further expanding the adapter's utility for database schema management. They also improved the SQL generation for several dump operations.
activerecord
unclebilly/jash
May 2012 - Jul 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 8 years 3 months
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