Joseph Ruether
Lead AI Platform Engineer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Ruether is a Lead AI Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, automated infrastructure and reliability solutions, currently shaping AI platform strategy at Target. He self-hosts his life in Kubernetes, champions version-controlled plain-text configuration, and brings a security-minded perspective from roles as Lead SRE and "Target Security Ninja." Known for simplifying complex ideas, recognizing cross-domain patterns, and preferring to do things right the first time, he excels at designing reproducible, serverless-friendly systems that scale. A pragmatic automation evangelist and open source proponent, he combines deep focus on thorny technical problems with clear communication and planning. Based in Minneapolis and grounded in an engineering education from Michigan Tech, he blends defense- and enterprise-grade systems experience—from multisensor tracking to global e-commerce platforms—into robust AI infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer / Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer / Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (187)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thunder9861/kali
Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 10 months
jrruethe/trezor-agent
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
Hardware-based SSH/PGP agent
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
sshhardwareagentpgp
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