Rick Carlino
Engineering Manager at Qualia
St. Charles, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRick Carlino is an engineering manager and former technical co-founder with 14 years of experience building scalable web and IoT platforms, currently leading engineering at Qualia. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, TypeScript, React and Elixir with product-minded leadership honed running FarmBot—where he designed the full stack, real-time device messaging, and a custom visual programming tool for home gardeners. Rick has a strong background in developer training and open-source contribution (notably early core work on the OpenFarm gardening knowledgebase) and a history of delivering PCI/HIPAA-compliant payment systems and resilient backend messaging at scale. His work combines systems-level reliability (RabbitMQ, Docker, cloud ops) with UX-forward features and front-end integration, and he occasionally writes about engineering and product topics on his blog. A former U.S. Army operations sergeant, he brings disciplined project execution and cross-team coordination to fast-moving technical organizations.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Korean / Small business management BIS, Korean / Small business management BIS at Arizona State UniversityAA General Studies, AA General Studies at William Rainey Harper CollegeBIS Korean Language Business Management, BIS Korean Language Business Management at Yonsei University
English, Spanish, Korean
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
rails10
database-design10
database-management10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
typescript9
react9
react-router9
html8
css8
ogg6
firebase6
asset-pipeline6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openfarmcc/OpenFarm
Nov 2013 - Aug 2021
A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 701 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rick's commits show a focus on building the initial framework and core functionality of the OpenFarm project. This included creating the initial scaffold for a refactored version of the application, as well as adding the Crop model, search capabilities, and the landing/results pages. The user was also responsible for incorporating CSS styling and integrating with the front end code.
databasegardeningfarmingplantsrails
RickCarlino/fbbs2
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Forth BBS 2, 1985 Bulletin Board software written in Forth (historic reconstruction)
Contributions:20 commits, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
historicreconstructionkebab-casebulletin-boardcustomisation
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