Ed Ruder
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolEd Ruder is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 16 years of experience building web and iOS applications, currently focused on growing Apto Payments' engineering organization since 2019. He brings deep full‑stack expertise—particularly Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, and native iOS—paired with a proven track record of shipping products at Square and numerous commercial and personal web projects dating back to 2005. Comfortable across Mac and Windows development environments, Ed combines hands‑on coding with 7+ years of people and project management to deliver useful, well‑crafted features. A Santa Clara University BSEE graduate, he enjoys continuous learning and blending technical mentorship with practical engineering processes to scale teams and systems.
16 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Bellarmine College PreparatoryBSEE Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BSEE Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Santa Clara University
English
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Github Skills (93)
statusline10
stimulusjs10
hotwire10
vimium10
docker-compose10
compose10
esbuild10
linode10
rails-app10
docker10
redis10
tailwind10
docker-swarm9
high-availability9
vim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
edruder/docker-rails-example
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
A production ready example Rails app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
edruder/maximum-awesome
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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