Summary
Ricardo Rivas is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 12 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently leading DevOps efforts at Housecall Pro from Guadalajara. He began as a full‑stack and frontend developer, which gives him strong coding and debugging instincts that he now applies to design resilient CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, and automation that scale. Ricardo is comfortable across languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C#) and has progressed internally at Housecall Pro from engineering to senior and staff DevOps roles, demonstrating deep product and operational context. Outside core duties he’s pursuing advanced degrees in systems engineering and data science, reflecting a practical interest in bringing data-driven improvements to platform reliability. Not obvious at first glance: his career spans both US‑remote and Mexico‑based teams, giving him cross-cultural experience in distributed engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at UTEL Universidad
Associate's degree Mechanical Engineering, Associate's degree Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Guadalajara
Spanish, English