Ruben Oussoren
Migration Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRuben Oussoren is a Migration Engineer based in Toronto with nine years’ experience turning messy legacy community platforms into reliable, modern Discourse instances. He leads end-to-end migrations—from discovery and schema mapping to cutover and post‑launch validation—while building robust tooling (Khoros converters, transformers, CSV/XLSX ingestors) that scale to large datasets and complex category/SSO requirements. Previously at Shopify he combined support, automation and data-driven debugging to ship a Chrome extension and speed merchant issue resolution, bringing a pragmatic mix of customer empathy and engineering. Ruben’s background in SQL/.NET support and hands-on ops work gives him an unusual attention to operational detail and documentation, helping teams cut risk and onboard faster. He shares best practices publicly and thrives on solving problems that sit at the intersection of developer tooling, migrations, and platform reliability.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Vancouver Island UniversityVancouver Island University Undergraduate Exchange Program, Vancouver Island University Undergraduate Exchange Program at NHTV internationaal hoger onderwijs Breda
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
rails10
postgresql10
mhealth10
discourse10
ember10
forum10
ruby10
anchor7
solana6
token-list5
metaplex4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RubenOussoren/Swift-App
Dec 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
RubenOussoren/chat
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
💬 Personal AI application powered by GPT-4 and beyond, with AI personas, AGI functions, text-to-image, voice, response streaming, code highlighting and execution, PDF import, presets for developers, much more. Deploy and gift #big-AGI-energy! Using Next.js, React, Joy.
Contributions:33 pushes in 1 year
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