Ralph Curry
Principal Engineer at American Express
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Curry is a Principal Engineer with decades of hands-on systems and database experience, now designing next-generation expensing solutions for SMBs at American Express. He blends deep expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, SQL Server) with systems programming in C/C++ and modern languages like C#, TypeScript, and Go. His career spans influential stints at Microsoft and Borland, plus entrepreneurial open-source work—most notably authoring and releasing IbOleDb to bridge Interbase and OLE DB. Known for pragmatism—“design what needs design, build what must be built, fix what’s broken”—he excels at turning legacy interoperability challenges into maintainable production systems. Based in Redmond, he brings both product-focused architecture and low-level engineering muscle to complex data problems.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoGeneral Education, General Education at De Anza Community College, Cupertine, CA
Github Skills (1)
unit-testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ralphcu/ServiceFabric.Mocks
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 days
mock-servertestingunitservicefabricmocks
loekd/ServiceFabric.Mocks
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
ServiceFabric.Mocks contains Mock classes to enable unit testing of Actors and Services
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 3 days
unit-testing
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