Summary
Royer Ruiz is a Staff Engineer specializing in DevOps and MLOps with eight years of experience building scalable, secure cloud infrastructure from startups to automotive manufacturing. Based in San Francisco, he has led platform migrations to Kubernetes, implemented CI/CD with ArgoCD, and delivered cloud-agnostic ML platforms that enable continuous training and edge deployments. At Rivian he architected factory data solutionsโmoving millions of files, designing shared Kubernetes clusters, and integrating event-driven pipelines into Snowflakeโwhile at Browserbase he drove SOC2/HIPAA readiness and a multi-regional networking design. Comfortable across Terraform, GKE/EKS, NATS, and ML tooling like MLFlow and Kubeflow, Royer blends hands-on engineering with compliance and operational rigor. Collected from both startup founding and industrial-scale roles, his work reveals a rare combination of manufacturing-focused data engineering and cloud-native platform leadership.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, minor in Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, minor in Physics at University of Central Arkansas
Spanish, English