Summary
Ruslan Rusu is a Senior Director of Engineering with 15 years of hands-on experience building and running high-availability, low-latency distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He combines hands-on engineering (self-taught roots and active GitHub projects) with senior leadership roles at Jabra Hearing, Lively and CLEAR, specializing in service reliability, capacity planning, and emergency recovery under hard SLAs. Comfortable across Java, Go, Ruby, .NET and modern orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus), he has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to ship and operate mission-critical services. Known for pragmatic simplicity and continuous improvement, he pairs deep operational know-how—failure detection, incident remediation, security/compliance—with a developer’s mindset of iterative learning. Based in Secaucus, NJ, he brings a track record of augmenting teams to de-risk complex projects while keeping code quality and observability front and center.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Computer Science, Licentiate degree Computer Science at Republican College of Microelectonics and Computers
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at INACTIVE1805844365-Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
English, Russian, romainan