Rino Jose
Software Engineer at Big Basin Labs
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRino Jose is a software engineer and founder with 11+ years of experience building productivity tooling and automation for large engineering orgs. He designed and implemented the Forthic language and platform, authoring 300+ custom tools at LinkedIn that integrate Jira, Confluence, Google Sheets, email, and LDAP to automate reporting and manager-targeted workflows. Rino combines hands-on coding with pragmatic teaching—training TPMs and managers to tweak their own automations so teams sustain improvements without constant engineering intervention. His background includes mobile and infrastructure roles, senior engineering leadership, and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Pennsylvania, which informs his systems-thinking approach even if he’s still finding direct applications. Now leading Forthix and engineering at Big Basin Labs from San Jose, he focuses on amplifying TPM effectiveness because boosting program management productivity scales company-wide impact. A former manager who chose to return to hands-on development, he blends product intuition, automation-first engineering, and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. Engineering Computer Science Operations Research, Ph.D. Engineering Computer Science Operations Research at University of PennsylvaniaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/forthic
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 52 commits in 1 year 6 months
rjose/rforth
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches, 20 tags in 3 months
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