Ron S
Founder, Principal Consultant at Newsmith Solutions
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorRon S is a founder and principal consultant in Chicago with a background as a Fintech CTO and over 18 years of experience delivering digital operations, product, and engineering transformations. He has repeatedly built organizations from scratch—creating digital divisions, hiring and scaling teams to 65+ engineers, and driving multi-release continuous delivery pipelines. As CTO at Beyond Finance he re-architected an entire application ecosystem, moved to intra-day deployments, and centralized data into a single source of truth to accelerate analytics and product decisions. Today he advises companies as a fractional/interim CTO, implementing Flow and DORA metrics, CI/CD, zero-trust security, and automated hardware onboarding to reduce risk and speed delivery. Hands-on throughout his career, he has deep roots in Ruby/Rails testing and contributed to the puffing-billy proxy project to improve test reliability and caching behavior. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who pairs strategic roadmap thinking with the technical discipline to execute complex migrations and rapid launches.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (4)
ruby10
rspec10
testing10
caching9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oesmith/puffing-billy
May 2014 - Aug 2022
A rewriting web proxy for testing interactions between your browser and external sites. Works with ruby + rspec.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 1 review, 144 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ron primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `puffing-billy` project, a web proxy for testing. Their contributions included updating the project's version, fixing deprecation warnings, and making code adjustments to support different versions of RSpec. They also implemented features, such as allowing pipes in URLs. Furthermore, they addressed issues and made modifications to the caching mechanism of the proxy.
proxybrowsertestingrewritingruby
springleaf/puffing-billy
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
A rewriting web proxy for testing interactions between your browser and external sites. Works with ruby + rspec.
Contributions:8 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 4 months
proxybrowsertestingrewritingruby
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