Rodrigo Ruz
Freelancer Software Engineer Consultant Independent Contractor at Home Office
Valdivia, Los Ríos, Chile
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Top SchoolRodrigo Ruz is a senior freelance software engineer and consultant with over 20 years of experience specializing in Delphi, Free Pascal, Oxygene and .NET, focused on VCL desktop UI engineering, IDE extensibility and low-level Windows integrations. He has a strong track record modernizing mission-critical systems in industries like biometrics, manufacturing and logistics while preserving stability and maintainability. An Embarcadero MVP and active open-source contributor, Rodrigo publishes technical deep-dives (including Delphi RTTI helpers) in his blog and GitHub, demonstrating a practical mastery of Windows internals and developer tooling. He excels at bridging legacy and modern platforms, improving developer productivity through tooling and editor enhancements, and thrives in remote, distributed teams delivering high-performance, high-DPI-aware desktop software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
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mysql9
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RRUZ/blog
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
Source code for the posts of my blog https://theroadtodelphi.com/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the project by adding code related to RTTI (Run-Time Type Information) capabilities for Delphi applications. The primary focus of the user's work included demonstrating how to retrieve getter and setter methods and fields of properties using RTTI. The code includes helper classes that enable inspection of properties, including accessing underlying fields and methods.
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RRUZ/wmi-delphi-code-creator
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Generate Object Pascal (Delphi, FPC), Oxygene, C++ and C# code to access the WMI
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 41 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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