Chris Ruffalo
Senior Architect at Red Hat
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Ruffalo is a Senior Architect at Red Hat with 13 years of professional software engineering experience and deep expertise in cloud automation, infrastructure deployments, containers, and DevOps. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from The Citadel and has progressed through consulting and architecture roles at Red Hat, bringing both hands-on implementation and strategic design to large-scale systems. A pragmatic Java developer and active open-source contributor, he improved path-matching robustness and test coverage in the high-performance Undertow webserver, demonstrating attention to edge cases and quality metrics like JaCoCo. Based in Summerville, SC, Chris blends systems integration and deployment experience from defense- and enterprise-grade projects with a focus on reliable, testable APIs and containerized delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The Citadel
Stackoverflow
1,913reputation
107kreached
19answers
5questions
gwt
top-1%
Github Skills (18)
testing10
gwt10
java10
javas10
http-server10
jakartaee9
web-content9
webpages9
test-automation8
servlet8
rpc6
csrf6
css6
validation6
bean-validation6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
undertow-io/undertow
May 2014 - May 2014
High performance non-blocking webserver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the `undertow-io/undertow` webserver's path matching functionality. They modified existing code to handle trailing slashes, normalize paths, and added comprehensive test cases to cover different scenarios and edge cases. Their contributions ensured the robustness and ease of use of the embedded API for developers. Furthermore, the user also contributed to making sure the project has jacoco test coverage.
golangnon-blockingsslweb-serverperformance
chrisruffalo/gudgeon
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
A DNS proxy with blocklists and user/machine groups
Contributions:94 releases, 534 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 3 months
groupsproxydnsdns-proxyblocklists
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.