Summary
Rockwell Rice is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing mission-critical APIs and full-stack applications, currently working at PingWind in Madison, WI. He has led solo engineering efforts—owning infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, and accessible front-ends—while also mentoring teams integrating legacy systems for large public-sector projects like the Vets-API Lighthouse. Comfortable across AWS/GCP, back-end services, and observability tooling (Datadog), Rockwell combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on reliability and maintainability. He also teaches and writes about AI engineering and human-in-the-loop tooling, bringing a learner-first approach informed by both technical nanodegrees and a master’s in music performance. An inventive problem solver, he has turned ignored test suites into dependable early-warning systems and cut cloud spend nearly in half through policy and provisioning improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree Music Performance Guitar, Master Degree Music Performance Guitar at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Android Developer Nanodegree Android Development, Android Developer Nanodegree Android Development at Udacity