Brian Ruiz
Full Stack Engineer at Hines
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Ruiz is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven web applications and cloud-backed pipelines, currently contributing to Hines' Global Digital Strategy Office in New York. He blends Python-led back ends (Django/Flask) with polished front-end work and responsive UI/UX, having shipped dashboards and visualizations for real-time energy data. His background includes logistics and operations software, AWS infrastructure, and automated ETL/web-scraping—skills honed at PeriShip and CAMS. Brian also teaches and mentors, having run project-based coding camps and led hands-on technical roles that bridge data acquisition to production delivery. An active GitHub contributor, he enhanced a Django + Plotly COVID-19 dashboard that earned community recognition on an "Awesome" list, signaling strong UI and data visualization instincts. He combines an entrepreneurial mindset from founding a local B2C business with a formal BS in Computer Science from the University of Houston–Downtown.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
C E King High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Houston-Downtown
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
django10
front-end-development9
css8
html8
plotly8
python8
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BrianRuizy/covid19-dashboard
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
🦠 Django + Plotly Coronavirus dashboard. Powerful data driven Python web-app, with an awesome UI. Contributions welcomed! Featured on 🕶Awesome-list
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 197 commits, 48 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily updated the user interface of the Django-based dashboard. They modified the navigation and footer templates and updated the login and register pages. The user also updated static card stats and plot titles.
data-drivenherokupythondjango-web-apppython-web
BrianRuizy/web-scraping-NLP
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Machine Learning - Personal Python project demonstrating a data analytic technique known as Web Scraping + Natural Language Processing performed on a real webpage.
Contributions:45 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
nlpwebpagepythondata-scienceanalytic
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