David Ragone
Head Of Engineering, Gusto Embedded (Developer Platform)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Ragone is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling developer platforms, currently heading Gusto Embedded to turn product capabilities into partner-facing platform services. Previously a Director of Engineering at Square, he led large cross-functional organizations responsible for payments and public developer tools (APIs, SDKs, GraphQL, Sandbox) and set technical strategy while driving execution and inclusive hiring. Hands-on across web, mobile, and server stacks, he blends deep technical craftsmanship—contributing back-end improvements to popular open-source projects like CodeTriage—with a knack for learning new businesses from the ground up. Known for asking the right questions and improving processes, he pairs product ownership and UX sensitivity with a track record of shipping measurable customer value. His background in analytics and trading early in his career gives him a quantitative, systems-oriented approach to decision making.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Government Economics, B.A. Government Economics at Georgetown University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby10
open-source9
rspec6
javascript6
permalinks6
mocking6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codetriage/CodeTriage
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 37 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the application by introducing and refactoring code related to GitHub API interactions. They created facades to encapsulate GitHubBub interactions, streamlining the codebase. Furthermore, the user added features for populating issues and implemented services to interact with GitHub's API.
discoverget-startedrailsjavascriptruby
DavidRagone/reading_list
Sep 2012 - Nov 2022
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 10 years 3 months
user-experienceuser-experience-designentrepreneurship
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