Summary
Ricardo Fleury is a software engineering manager and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience building Rails and React applications and a background in energy efficiency that informs his practical, process-minded approach. He has led teams and shipped products at companies like SimplePractice and SendOwl while running his own consultancy, Tavi Software, enabling him to blend hands-on coding with product and client-facing communication. Skilled at translating technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders, he focuses on quality code, thoughtful testing, and reducing business friction through pragmatic automation. Comfortable in remote and distributed teams, he has repeatedly moved between individual contributor and leadership roles, demonstrating adaptability and entrepreneurial initiative. Based in Glenview, IL, he is open to contract or full-time remote opportunities and often partners with founders to turn early product ideas into shipping web experiences. A former energy manager who self-taught development to solve domain problems, he brings a rare combination of domain empathy and software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Oswego High School
Dev Bootcamp
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
BS Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, BS Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign