Summary
Ralph Navarro is a seasoned DevOps and QA leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in senior engineering and consulting roles, currently leading DevOps, QA automation, and engineering efforts from Marlborough, MA. He has driven FDA-aligned test automation for medical devices, built CI/CT/CD pipelines and Atlassian ALM solutions, and designed performance and simulation tooling that exposed scalability and reliability issues across cloud and embedded systems. Comfortable as a practitioner and manager, he blends deep scripting and Linux internals expertise with leadership of cross-functional teams to deliver auditable, production-ready software. A longtime independent consultant and founder of Navarro Computing LLC, he repeatedly turns complex regulatory and performance requirements into automated, repeatable processes that reduce risk and accelerate delivery. An unexpected thread through his career is a persistent focus on creating realistic production simulators and installers—tools that often reveal defects invisible to conventional testing.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Partial completion AS Engineering Engineering, Partial completion AS Engineering Engineering at Orange County Community College
UMass Lowell
Partially completed BS Business Management Business Management, Partially completed BS Business Management Business Management at University of Phoenix