Ricardo Aragon
Lead Developer & Scrum Master at Pressbooks
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Aragon is a seasoned software leader and Scrum Master with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining web platforms, currently leading the engineering and agile practices at Pressbooks from Halifax, Canada. He combines full-stack engineering chops—PHP, Ruby, JavaScript frameworks, and cloud migrations—with people-first leadership, mentoring teams and defining development standards that improve delivery and quality. Ricardo has driven measurable outcomes such as a 30% infrastructure cost reduction during an AWS migration and contributes to open-source publishing tooling (Pressbooks) by implementing backend integrations and API enhancements. Comfortable toggling between architecture, DevOps collaboration, and sprint facilitation, he excels at turning complex product requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions. Known for adaptability and continuous learning, he brings both startup agility and disciplined process to mid-sized engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree Information Technology Analyst, Computer Science, Bachelor Degree Information Technology Analyst, Computer Science at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias hídricas de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Github Skills (8)
php10
sentry10
api10
apidoc10
testing10
publish9
unit-testing9
google-books8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pressbooks/pressbooks
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Open publishing. Open web. Open source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:218 reviews, 236 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo implemented and tested Sentry SDK integration by adding the necessary dependencies and unit tests. The user also made changes to disable Sentry for the development environment. Additionally, the user fixed a comma in an associative array and added new fields for the API books endpoint, including language and subjects.
ebookspublishingwebbooksopen-publishingpb-active
pressbooks/pressbooks-multi-institution
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Tools for managing Pressbooks networks shared by multiple institutions
Contributions:54 reviews, 30 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pb-activepressbooks-plugin
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