Ronny Pena
Staff Software Engineer at Rippling
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRonny Pena is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with deep expertise designing resilient, high-throughput platform services across startups and large enterprises. Over two decades of engineering experience and 11 years in senior roles, he has led teams and architected migrations to event-driven systems and Kubernetes, improving availability from 99% to 99.99% and cutting critical p99 latencies by an order of magnitude. He’s delivered large-scale infrastructure at Squarespace handling 18K RPS for millions of domains and built product-grade backend systems and integrations at Compass and Backbase that eliminated outages and accelerated feature launches. A hands-on leader, Ronny grows teams, defines technical roadmaps, and champions observability and performance-first designs; less obvious is his early entrepreneurial experience building and selling custom computer systems and networks, which seeded his practical operational instincts. He holds an MS in Computer Science (Computing Systems & Machine Learning) from Georgia Tech and a BS from CUNY Lehman.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science (Computing Systems & Machine Learning), Master of Science, Computer Science (Computing Systems & Machine Learning) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at City University of New York-Herbert H. Lehman College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
clockwork9
cron8
golang6
scheduler6
go4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ronny164/Algorithms
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:91 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ronny164/mint-client
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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