Summary
Rick Umali is a Product Solutions Architect and pragmatic engineer with 18 years of experience building and operationalizing enterprise software across UNIX/Linux, Java, Python, Ruby and C/C++ stacks. He has a strong history in customer-facing roles and internal engineering—spanning support, data engineering, web engineering, QA and SaaS delivery—bringing deep expertise in automating data pipelines and production processes. At companies from Endeca and Veracode to FirstFuel and Turbine he’s led migrations, built ETL tooling and prototyped RESTful services, often tying systems together with scripts and cloud tooling on AWS. Based in Greater Boston, he’s also an author on Git, reflecting an interest in developer workflows and practical tooling that isn’t obvious from job titles alone.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
1990, Computer Science, 1990, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute