Summary
Rodney Degracia is a versatile software developer and systems engineer based in Orlando with a long, hands-on career blending iOS/mobile, systems programming, cloud, and AI/LLM development. He brings deep C/C++ and Swift expertise alongside full-stack Ruby on Rails and backend experience on AWS/Azure, plus decades of Unix/Linux systems administration that inform robust, production-ready designs. Recently focused on agentic LLM applications using pyAutoGen, OpenAI and Anthropic, he bridges model fine-tuning and real-world deployment to automate and augment software workflows. Rodney’s portfolio spans AR/MR work (Magic Leap, Unity), Alexa integrations, and scalable data backends (SQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch), reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems fluency and modern AI engineering. A longtime contributor to open-source communities and continuous learner, he often applies scripting and automation to shrink operational overhead and accelerate feature delivery.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Programming, Programming at Grossmont College
Grossmont Community College
National Science Foundation Programming; Office of Information and Resource Management, National Science Foundation Programming; Office of Information and Resource Management at Southwestern College
San Diego State University