Ricardo Signes
Chief Development Experience Officer at Fastmail
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Signes is a veteran technology leader with 20 years of experience who currently serves as Chief Development Experience Officer at Fastmail, after leading the company as CTO and head of special projects. A pragmatic polyglot and longtime Perl advocate, he contributes to influential open-source tooling like Dist-Zilla—improving CPAN distribution build and test workflows—demonstrating deep expertise in developer tooling and release engineering. Based in Philadelphia, he has moved between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership roles, previously serving as VP at IC Group and an IT analyst/developer at IQE. Trained in philosophy and religious studies, he brings a thoughtful, systems-oriented perspective to product decisions and team culture, often favoring maintainability and developer experience over flash.
20 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy and Religious Studies at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
perl10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
licensing8
testing8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rjbs/Dist-Zilla
May 2008 - Jan 2023
scary tools for building CPAN distributions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1581 commits, 222 PRs in 14 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily worked on Dist::Zilla plugins, focusing on enhancing the core functionality and maintainability of the distribution building tool. Their commits involved adding features to existing plugins, such as incorporating dynamic configuration and adding file content encoding capabilities. They also made changes to the core codebase, including improvements to the build and test processes.
distributionscpan
rjbs/Email-Stuffer
May 2013 - Jan 2023
for sending stuff through email
Contributions:80 commits, 22 PRs, 35 pushes in 9 years 9 months
mailemailsmtpsending
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