John Ruiz
Security Operations Engineer
State College-DuBois Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ruiz is a Security Operations Engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a two-decade arc that spans hands-on software development, R&D leadership, and executive engineering roles. He has built and secured globally distributed applications for the US Intelligence Community, led engineering teams through acquisitions and integrations, and today focuses on Security DevOps at GitHub. A pragmatic leader, he emphasizes connecting individual work to business objectives, encouraging early problem reporting, and shortening feedback loops to improve team performance. Comfortable switching between heavyweight and lightweight processes, he revives struggling teams by returning autonomy and iterating via thoughtful retrospectives. Equally at home writing code and shaping organizational strategy, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, security focus, and operational empathy.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, IST, BS, IST at Penn State UniversityHigh School, High School at Butler High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Information Sciences and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
test-coverage10
python-development10
kubernetes10
minikube10
sql10
virtualenv10
code-coverage10
coverage10
pip10
visualizations10
pipfile10
java10
go10
docker10
packaging10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jar349/gold-price-scraper
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
Berico-Technologies/CMF
Aug 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:101 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
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