Ramon Rüttimann
Senior Software Engineer at Infracost
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRamon Rüttimann is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with a decade of experience building cloud-native tooling and developer-focused infrastructure. He combines backend development and DevOps expertise, having contributed to high-impact open-source projects like Snyk CLI (container vulnerability scanning features) and Terratest (Terraform testing reliability), and helped make FFmpeg more developer-friendly via a Go wrapper. His career spans platform and security-conscious roles at Nine Internet Solutions, Snyk, and now Infracost, where he focuses on making cloud cost and security workflows more predictable and automatable. Known for pragmatic refactors and careful UX-minded CLI improvements, Ramon brings a strong eye for robustness in tooling and subtle product-facing changes that smooth adoption.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at ZHAW School of Engineering
Github Skills (23)
docker10
back-end-development10
testing10
ffmpeg10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
testing-library10
go10
golang10
backend10
wrapper10
devops10
cli10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 20 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ramon contributed to the Snyk CLI by implementing new features related to container vulnerability scanning, specifically focusing on the `--exclude-app-vulns` and `--app-vulns` flags. They modified the CLI's behavior to include and exclude application vulnerabilities based on user-specified flags and a feature flag. Furthermore, the user added warnings to inform users about upcoming changes to the default behavior of the container test/monitor commands. The user also refactored docker suggestions and implemented the `--print-graph` flag for container scans.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
gruntwork-io/terratest
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ramon primarily focused on improving the `terratest` library, particularly around Terraform integration and testing. Their contributions include bug fixes related to boolean handling in Terraform variable formatting, and refactoring the output parsing logic for improved stability and performance. They also improved the logging facilities and added a new error type, enhancing the robustness of the library. These changes focused on improving the user experience and robustness of the tools used to test infrastructure code.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
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