Summary
Michael Ruggiero is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades delivering large-scale distributed systems and trust-and-compliance platforms, most recently leading Trust and Compliance Engineering at Twilio and now serving as VP of Engineering at Jaris. He has managed more than 55 engineers across eight teams, blending hands-on technical fluency in Scala, Python, Java, Rails, Clojure and Terraform with strong operational rigor around reliability and compliance. His career spans high-throughput ad tech, ticketing, and communications systems where he built real-time auctions, ETL pipelines, and robust devops practices—often introducing CI, testing, and infrastructure automation at scale. A committed coach, he prioritizes engineer growth and balanced risk-taking, pairing product delivery with auditability and safety for customer communications.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA History, BA History at University of California, Berkeley