Jeremy Ristau
Director Of Engineering at 2U
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Ristau is a results-driven Director of Engineering who combines hands-on product delivery with servant leadership to scale high-performing teams and modernize platform experiences. Based in Cambridge, he currently leads four product and platform teams responsible for the learning and authoring experiences on edx.org, driving initiatives from AI/ML course translation to a public authoring API that automates content creation at >80% fidelity. He has a track record of cutting operating costs and improving observability (>$1M savings forecast) while instituting accountability frameworks and data-driven delivery practices that reduced chaos into stable, promotable teams. A former platform reliability and quality engineering lead, he blends deep reliability, testing, and DevOps instincts with agile coaching to sustain low attrition and measurable cycle-time improvements. His open-source documentation contributions to Open edX reflect an attention to developer and author ergonomics as well as product usability.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematical Sciences, BS Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic InstitutecPrime Scrum Master Training
English
Github Skills (7)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
content-management9
content-management-system9
text-editing8
openedx7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/edx-documentation
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
[DEPRECATED] documentation for Open edX; please see docs.openedx.org
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 10 commits, 19 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the repository by updating and revising documentation related to the edX platform's text editor. Their work involved modifying existing documentation files to reflect changes in the text editor's features and functionality. The user also removed outdated documentation related to LaTeX support. Overall, the contributions focused on clarifying and correcting documentation for users of the platform.
openedx
edx/edx-documentation
Mar 2025 - Oct 2025
documentation for edx.org
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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