Summary
Ron Dagdag is a hands-on Research Engineering Manager and Microsoft MVP with 25 years of experience building cloud-native, edge, and AI-powered systems across retail, manufacturing, and tech services. He blends deep engineering practice—C#, Python, TypeScript, microservices, Kubernetes—and practical R&D leadership to take proofs-of-concept like computer-vision self-checkout into production at scale. Ron excels at creating high-trust, high-learning teams that ship reliable IoT, mixed-reality, and ML experiences while improving developer productivity through DevOps and architecture discipline. He has a track record of turning automation ideas into measurable savings (e.g., factory and design automation) and has run cross-cloud reference architectures on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Active in the community, Ron mentors developers, serves on Collin College’s Web Advisory Board, and shares projects and tools through open source and talks. Based in Fort Worth, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity-driven “Code, Create, Coach, Repeat” approach that favors experimentation backed by delivery.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Autodesk University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Specialization in Software Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Specialization in Software Technology at De La Salle University
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