Spencer Ritzow
Software Architect at Nelnet
Franklin, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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SeniorSpencer Ritzow is a software architect with nine years of hands-on experience building web and game-related systems, currently shaping architecture at Nelnet after progressing through multiple engineering roles there. He has strong .NET and ASP.NET Core expertise, led a migration from .NET Framework to .NET Core, and has experience across Node.js, Java, and Unity3D from earlier projects. Spencer combines product-focused engineering—delivering features for early customer testing and streamlining APIs—with a habit of exploring reverse engineering and automation for unconventional problems. He has led peer programming and code review efforts, earning internal recognition for impact, and is comfortable translating undocumented legacy systems into modern requirements. Open to relocation and eager to return to a junior-to-mid professional environment, he brings curiosity-driven breadth alongside proven delivery in production systems. An uncommon strength is his history of automating large-scale game character management, showing a knack for applying analytical modeling to optimize operational behavior.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (42)
assertion10
testing10
dotnet9
unit-testing9
error-handling8
validation7
csharp5
dotnet-core5
mining5
pool5
zcash4
miner4
blockchain-api4
bitcoin3
cpu3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spencerr/b2k-pr-environment
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 47 pushes in 6 months
spencerr/SafeSpotGenerator
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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