Rudie Rudie
Senior Software Engineer at MBTA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRudie Rudie is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building resilient, data-driven systems and a recent focus on improving transit data pipelines at the MBTA to make Boston’s ferries, buses, and trains more predictable. He has a strong backend and database pedigree—contributing bug fixes and enhancements to the open-source SymmetricDS project—and has built high-throughput payment services handling tens of millions in daily deposits. Comfortable across distributed systems, ETL, and operational reliability, Rudie has reduced manual work through automation (centralizing reversed payments reconciliation) and run production-grade on-call rotations. He pairs academic research in distributed computing with practical engineering, having taught and mentored students while shipping tools at companies like DraftKings and Wolfram. An aficionado of text editors and editing plain files, he brings a pragmatic, tooling-first mindset to developer workflows and data hygiene.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma with Honors, High School Diploma with Honors at Marietta High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Miami University
Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
sql-server10
databases10
data-replication10
sql10
java10
database10
cdc9
mysql8
postgresql8
firebird7
data-structures6
api6
transaction6
payment6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
JumpMind/symmetric-ds
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
SymmetricDS is database replication and file synchronization software that is platform independent, web enabled, and database agnostic. It is designed to make bi-directional data replication fast, easy, and resilient. It scales to a large number of nodes and works in near real-time across WAN and LAN networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Database Engineer
Back-end & Database EngineerContributions:1 review, 26 commits, 25 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rudie primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements related to database replication and data synchronization within the SymmetricDS project. Their work focused on addressing issues in specific database platforms like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Firebird, including permission checks, data type handling, and stored procedure replication. The user also implemented changes to improve the handling of large data values and incorporated improvements in the project's file synchronization.
operationsqlserverdata-replicationagnosticresilient
rudiejd/pc2l
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 111 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
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