Craig Buchek
Principal Software Engineer, Director Of Engineering Excellence at BoochTek, LLC
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Buchek is a Principal Software Engineer and Director of Engineering Excellence with 18 years of experience helping teams revive and stabilize Ruby on Rails applications while improving delivery through Agile practices. He runs BoochTek as an independent consultant focused on rescue projects, coaching, and DevOps automation, blending hands-on coding with team-level process improvements like pair programming, TDD, and Kaizen. His technical breadth spans full-stack web development (Rails, JavaScript, Elm), CI/CD and Linux operations, and low-level networking and protocol troubleshooting, enabling him to bridge product, infra, and security concerns. Craig has a long history of contracting across industries—from networking and healthcare to fintech—bringing steady technical leadership to both startups and large enterprises. He’s known for rescuing brittle codebases and institutionalizing technical excellence rather than just shipping features. Based in Long Beach, CA, he quietly combines practitioner-level craftsmanship with deliberate mentoring to raise team velocity and resilience.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Washington University in St. LouisRose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
esoteric-language10
perl10
ruby10
automation10
steroids10
ssh10
leiningen10
sum10
ansible10
adobe-experience-manager10
chrome10
devops10
javascript9
network-configuration9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
boochtek/defaults_plus
Mar 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
knockmac-osmacos-xmacos
booch/concerts
Jun 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
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