Ralph Minderhoud
Lead Software Engineer at Zacks Intelligence
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Minderhoud is a pragmatic lead software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, distributed services, and game infrastructure across C++, Rust, Python and cloud-native stacks. He founded and runs Rednim Games, leading development of a live MMORPG (ROSE Online) while managing a remote team and large player communities, showing uncommon product-to-ops ownership for an engineer. Ralph has driven cloud microservices and observability at scale—deploying Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus/Grafana—and built AI-driven lead-processing services using Google Vertex, as well as financial and statistical modelling platforms from his startup work. An active contributor to the Rust ecosystem, he has improved crates.io backend search and sorting, reflecting deep backend and API design skills. Based in Portsmouth, NH, he combines hands-on systems programming with leadership across startups and enterprise integrations, and is comfortable shipping everything from game servers and CI/CD to production-grade data services.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Trinity UniversityIT Lab Program, IT Lab Program at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Github Skills (6)
rust10
postgresql10
io10
crate10
api-design10
testing9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/crates.io
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
The Rust package registry
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily contributed to the backend of the `crates.io` project. Their work involved modifying the Crates API to incorporate sorting functionality based on different parameters such as downloads and relevance, as well as adding a test to validate the sorting queries. They also fixed sorting order in the crates API to match the test results. This work improves the search and retrieval of Rust packages.
rustpackage-registrycargo
asminfosp/irose
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
IROSE Client, Server and Tools
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 9 months
saslclient-serverirc-serverserver
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