Edward Ruggeri
Founder at App Academy
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Ruggeri is a founder and software engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and validating developer-focused education and tooling. As founder of App Academy since 2012 he blends product leadership with hands-on engineering, particularly in test automation and QA work that strengthens interview prep curriculum used widely by aspiring developers. His background includes software development roles at Google and Quantcast, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, giving him strong analytical and system-design instincts. On GitHub he has contributed RSpec test suites to high-visibility prep repos, demonstrating a focus on quality, reproducibility, and teaching through code. Colleagues describe him with a playful, machine-minded persona—someone who both jokingly aspires to be a robot and reliably behaves like one when it comes to disciplined engineering. He brings entrepreneurial grit, rigorous testing practices, and a knack for turning learning materials into production-quality learning experiences.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at University of ChicagoApp Academy
Github Skills (4)
test-automation10
rspec10
testing10
ruby9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
appacademy/prep-work
Oct 2012 - May 2015
preparatory material for interviewing with App Academy
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:129 commits, 5 pushes, 2 issues in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Edward's commits primarily focus on creating and modifying test specifications for various practice problems related to App Academy's interview preparation. The commits involve writing RSpec tests to validate the correctness of code solutions for problems covering diverse areas like vowel ordering, scientific notation, word unscrambling, rectangle intersection, and bubble sort. The user demonstrates proficiency in testing methodologies and RSpec framework.
flutterinterviewingapp-academyandroid
ruggeri/tech-notes
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1106 commits, 749 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 10 months
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