Randy Girard
Principal Software Architect at TradePending
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRandy Girard is a Principal Software Architect with 17 years of experience building web applications, primarily using Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has progressed from senior engineering roles to leading architecture and delivery at TradePending, with hands-on experience across full project lifecycles and legacy-system maintenance. Randy pairs deep backend skills (SQL, C++, Perl, PHP) with front-end know-how (HTML, CSS, jQuery) and practical deployment experience such as Passenger/Apache for Rails. Known for clear technical communication and strong documentation and test-planning habits, he helps bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. Based in Summerville, SC, he thrives in both independent and collaborative settings and is attentive to emerging patterns and tooling. Beyond coding, he brings a knack for reducing source-control collisions and streamlining team workflows—small process changes that yield outsized productivity gains.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Berkshire Community College
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Github Skills (135)
faraday10
distributed-tracing10
perl10
ruby10
lua10
dry-rb10
ruby-client10
gameserver10
sidekiq10
azerothcore10
apm10
performance-monitoring10
newrelic10
datadog10
monitoring9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
randy-girard/app_perf
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
Open source application performance monitoring tool with emphasis on ease of setup and use. Providing similar functionality like NewRelic/AppNeta/Skylight etc.
Contributions:173 commits, 28 PRs, 203 pushes in 4 years 4 months
newrelicperformance-monitoringsimilarmonitoring-toolperformance
randy-girard/acts_as_similar
Jun 2009 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 9 years 11 months
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