Summary
Oscar Ricaud is a solutions-oriented software engineer and solution architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, microservice-driven applications for the U.S. financial services market. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on development (Spring Boot, FastAPI, Angular) with platform and automation expertise across Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tekton and AWS to accelerate client delivery and operational resilience. At IBM he has moved from developer to advisory roles, delivering production-grade demos, custom integrations, and security-minded tooling such as a Visual Studio plugin tied to 1Password and automation for Watson Code Assistant. He leverages prompt engineering and LLMs to streamline prototyping and even built a Chrome extension that creates AI summaries from selected text, showing a practical bent for productivity tooling. Known for translating complex requirements into repeatable CI/CD and deployment pipelines, he blends technical depth with client-facing communication to drive adoption and pipeline growth. Quietly pragmatic, he pairs enterprise-scale delivery experience with a penchant for small, high-impact developer tools that reduce risk and save time.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso
English, Spanish