Ed Ropple
Enterprise Architect API Governance Lead at Verizon
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEd Ropple is an enterprise architect and API governance lead with 15 years of experience designing developer-facing platforms and improving developer experience across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Verizon, he blends API strategy, governance, and hands-on engineering informed by prior senior roles at Render, Mux, and Hydrow. He has led engineering teams, developer advocacy, and DevOps initiatives, shipping cross-platform solutions and shaping API ecosystems that balance velocity with compliance. An active contributor to open-source (notably modernizing the SadConsole .NET console engine for multi-platform MonoGame targets), he brings pragmatic full-stack skills from systems and infrastructure to client-facing SDKs. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs product-minded technical leadership with a preference for focused, non-solicitation interactions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Maine
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Github Skills (22)
game-engine10
multiplatform10
console10
net10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
asp-net10
monogame10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
platform-independent10
game-dev9
textbox9
game-development9
html6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Thraka/SadConsole
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
A .NET ascii/ansi console engine written in C# for MonoGame and XNA. Create your own text roguelike (or other) games!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ed contributed to the SadConsole engine by restructuring the core code into a shared project. They updated platform-specific projects (Windows, Linux, MacOS) to utilize MonoGame 3.3 and created new projects for different platforms. Their contributions included moving existing components and creating build configurations to support a multi-platform environment. They also worked on integrating shared code into new platform targets.
dotnetgamesasciiconsolegamedev
eropple/taskbotjs
May 2018 - Oct 2018
The best JavaScript/TypeScript job processing framework on the planet.
Contributions:75 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 4 months
planetjavascripttask-queuejob-queuejavascript-typescript
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