Summary
Ronald Porch is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building customer-facing products across Ruby on Rails, React, Node.js, and mobile platforms. He has driven front-end modernizations and cloud migrations—most recently leading a Rails-to-React conversion and EKS deployment strategies to scale fraud mitigation tooling for e-commerce. Ronald pairs product-focused UI work (from Spectrum set-top guide features to audio streaming components) with backend and DevOps improvements like CI/CD, GraphQL, and microservices that accelerate delivery. He’s comfortable across the stack, having implemented realtime systems, subscription/pubsub models, and event-driven architectures for large enterprises. Based in Castle Rock, CO, he combines a maker’s background in print production with formal Ruby on Rails training, which helps him balance practical delivery with thoughtful engineering. Colleagues rely on him for translating evolving designs into testable, deployable components and for introducing engineering best practices that stick.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Louisiana State University
Associate's Degree General Studies, Associate's Degree General Studies at Baton Rouge Community College
Ruby on Rails Certificate Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails Certificate Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Japanese, English