R Garcia
Staff Software Engineer at Huntress
Aledo, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolR Garcia is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building large-scale backend services and distributed systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Huntress. He combines hands-on implementation with team leadership, mentoring, and incident response experience across companies from VMware to Mode and Babylist. His work includes automating SDK generation and API docs, migrating critical data types with minimal downtime, and designing real-time inventory and orchestration systems that turned multi-week processes into milliseconds. An active open-source contributor, he maintained and modernized the rbvmomi Ruby client for VMware vSphere, improving compatibility and packaging it as a proper gem. Based in Aledo, Texas, he prioritizes developer experience and reliable, observable systems while enjoying the challenge of elegant solutions to distributed problems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Information Technology - Computer Network Systems (IT-CNS), AAS Information Technology - Computer Network Systems (IT-CNS) at ITT Technical Institute
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Github Skills (19)
ruby10
api10
version-control10
management10
versioning10
vaapi10
rubygems9
testing9
apidoc9
gemfile9
gemspec9
asp-net6
compiler-construction6
nant6
ninject6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/rbvmomi
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Ruby interface to the VMware vSphere API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 7 reviews, 49 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:R primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `rbvmomi` Ruby library, which provides an interface to the VMware vSphere API. Their contributions include refactoring the code to make it a proper Ruby Gem, fixing namespacing issues, and adding support for newer API versions, such as 6.5. They also addressed compatibility issues across different Ruby versions and performed versioning updates. Overall, the user demonstrated a deep understanding of the library's architecture and the VMware vSphere API.
apivmware-vsphereesxirubyvsphere-api
vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-ruby
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Ruby samples, language bindings, and API reference documentation for vSphere using the VMware REST API
Contributions:5 commits, 34 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year 5 months
apirubyrestrest-apivmware
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