Ramon Long
Senior Staff Engineer at Skool
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamon Long is a Senior Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable full-stack systems and acting as a force-multiplier for engineering teams. He blends hands-on architecture and SRE expertise—particularly in AWS, Kubernetes, and observability—with a strong track record of reducing cloud OpEx and improving platform availability. As a founder of Wizard Beard Studio he applies engineering discipline to game publishing and open-source game systems while mentoring engineers across career stages. Ramon has led architecture and AI working groups, created growth frameworks for engineering and SRE career paths, and automated complex platform workflows to remove “war room” reliance during high-traffic events. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for translating legacy systems into modern, maintainable platforms. Quietly, he also builds educational products (Zero to Principal Engineer) to help others level up both technical and soft skills.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of the PeopleGeneral Studies, General Studies at Monroe Community College
English, c#, sql, javascript, kotlin, java, ruby, golang
Github Skills (57)
code-golf9
percentage8
lisp-interpreter8
common-lisp8
mortar8
geocoding7
science7
computer-science7
chatbot7
lisp7
cpp7
macros6
mongoid5
interpreter5
low-level5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLispDotNet/OpenLispNET
Aug 2015 - Sep 2020
An experimental Lisp interpreter built on C# with a working REPL.
Contributions:135 commits, 8 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 years 1 month
code-golfrepllisp-interpreterlispcommon-lisp
Wizard-Beard-Games/kmonkeyengine
Feb 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
gamegame-developmentopengl3d-gamejava
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