Chris Ruenes is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full‑stack web applications using Ruby, Postgres, React and Meteor, currently contributing at Google after senior engineering work at Persado. He blends a formal music composition background with entrepreneurial grit from co-founding a peer-to-peer tutoring startup, bringing creative problem-solving and a knack for team inspiration to technical challenges. Known for fostering collaboration and mentoring—evident from teaching roles at App Academy and extensive tutoring—he enjoys making code more efficient, intuitive, and elegant. His unique mix of composition and engineering informs an attention to structure and emotional resonance in both product and team dynamics.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Music Theory and Composition, Bachelor’s Degree, Music Theory and Composition at Columbia University in the City of New York
Software Development, Software Development at App Academy
Contributions:86 commits, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
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