Ruben Orduz
Founder at RO FORWARD INDUSTRIES, LLC
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRuben Orduz is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems, developer tools, and data validation platforms from both product and community angles. He’s driven developer advocacy and technical leadership roles at Great Expectations, Astronomer, VMware/Tanzu, and Rackspace, bridging product, docs, and developer ecosystems while mentoring teams. Ruben contributes to notable open-source projects—extending Great Expectations with custom data expectations and improving cloud storage examples in pkgcloud—demonstrating practical expertise in data quality and multi-cloud integrations. Based in Gainesville, FL, he combines hands-on engineering across front-end, back-end, and platform work with a knack for turning user feedback into product improvements. An understated strength is his long history of technical evangelism and cross-functional enablement, which helps accelerate adoption of complex cloud and data tooling.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science Computer and Information Science at University of Florida
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
data-quality10
data-validation10
python10
data-engineering10
rackspace10
great-expectations10
dns10
cloud-storage10
management10
nodejs10
pandas9
regex9
json8
unit-testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
great-expectations/great_expectations
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Always know what to expect from your data.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:147 reviews, 25 commits, 50 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily contributed to the development of data validation and quality checks within the Great Expectations framework. Their work involved implementing custom Expectations for validating data against various criteria, including GitHub usernames, IATA codes, Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), JSON format, and scientific notation. These contributions extend the library's functionality for data validation across various data types and formats, improving data quality checks. The user also made contributions to documentation and examples.
pythondatadata-integritydatacleanerpipeline-testing
pkgcloud/pkgcloud
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
pkgcloud is a standard library for node.js that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud providers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily contributed to examples and configurations related to cloud storage and DNS management using Rackspace. The commits showcase the implementation of example code for creating and managing containers and records within the Rackspace cloud platform, specifically integrating the `pkgcloud` library. They also fixed unit tests and made modifications to container settings, indicating a focus on functionality and testing related to cloud services integrations.
pkgcloudnode-jsprovidersabstractscloud
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