Ralph Iden
Summary
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SeniorRalph Iden is a founder, solution provider, and technical evangelist with 14 years of formal experience and a career spanning decades creating elegant software and hardware solutions. He blends a background in RF communications and electrical engineering with practical software architecture expertise to bridge hardware and software gaps, emphasizing test-first, modular design. As founder of creativewidgetworks he has delivered complete products—from double-entry accounting and billing systems to solar power management and educational robotics—focused on simplifying complex problems. At Follett Software he led distributed teams to design scalable, secure, and maintainable K-12 infrastructure, promoting agile practices and mentoring engineers. Ralph is driven by a passion for reducing complexity and increasing quality, often favoring small, high-impact projects that scale in value rather than scope. He’s a lifelong learner and communicator who enjoys sharing knowledge through presentations and hands-on mentoring.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
parser10
jsoup10
css-selectors10
java10
html-parser10
dom10
xml10
css9
xss9
xpath9
html9
ide8
expression-evaluator8
tplink8
octoprint8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ridencww/cww_MorseTx
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 11 months
ridencww/expression-evaluator
Jul 2012 - May 2021
Extensible general purpose expression evaluator
Contributions:15 releases, 67 commits, 23 PRs in 9 years
expression-evaluator
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