Thilo Rusche
Senior Engineer at SourceWorks
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolThilo Rusche is a senior engineer and seasoned technology founder with 25 years in software development and 14 years of continuous professional experience, currently based in Dublin. He blends hands-on Ruby on Rails craftsmanship—his long-running apps and a fondness for Ruby are notable—with leadership roles from CTO to co-founder, having built teams and products that serve hundreds of customers across multiple startups. Equally comfortable mentoring and shipping code, he designs product experiences, leads technical roadmaps, and handles devops and troubleshooting in production. His career spans high-throughput messaging platforms, early online banking systems, and modern SaaS marketplaces, reflecting deep full‑stack and systems-level expertise. A pragmatic engineer who keeps his hands dirty, he brings entrepreneurial grit, a track record of scaling products and teams, and an unusual persistence in maintaining long-lived Rails platforms through many major upgrades.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at University of HamburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering at George Mason University
English, German
Stackoverflow
17,685reputation
1.3mreached
368answers
13questions
mysql
top-5%
authentication
top-5%
php
top-5%
activerecord
top-5%
rspec
top-5%
ruby
top-1%
Github Skills (166)
devise10
http10
authentication10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
merchant10
payment-integration10
payment10
html10
spree10
debugging10
shopify10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trusche/httplog
Jul 2011 - Nov 2022
Log outgoing HTTP requests in ruby
Contributions:30 releases, 3 reviews, 262 commits in 11 years 6 months
http-requestsrailsloggingapisruby
trusche/trusche.github.com
Nov 2012 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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