TJ Moretto
San Francisco Bay Area at JDW Social Education Programs
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTJ Moretto is a veteran technology leader and current CTO based in Berkeley with 20+ years of software engineering and architecture experience and a decade-plus in senior leadership at Babylist. He has grown through engineering ranks from Senior Engineer to CTO, scaling teams and systems that combine commerce, content, and community to influence purchase decisions for millions. Known for long-term technical stewardship, he empowers autonomous teams to ship durable, customer-loved products while balancing product velocity and maintainability. His hands-on background includes back-end optimization work—such as improving image processing in an open-source Ruby Tesseract library—highlighting a willingness to dive into performance details. Prior roles across startups and consulting bring him cross-functional product and delivery experience spanning biomedical engineering roots to large enterprise delivery. He combines strategic leadership with a practical engineer’s mindset, favoring pragmatic, measurable improvements over flashy one-offs.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Biomedical Engineering, BSE, Biomedical Engineering at University of Iowa
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (19)
image-processing10
minimagick10
rmagick10
ruby10
tess4j9
twitter-bootstrap9
tooltip9
forms9
ocr9
tesseract9
tesseractjs9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord6
logging6
database-migration6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dannnylo/rtesseract
Dec 2013 - Jun 2019
Ruby library for working with the Tesseract OCR.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:TJ focused on optimizing image processing within the rtesseract Ruby library. They primarily worked on modifying the image conversion process from JPEG to TIFF format. Their efforts involved experimenting with different methods to prevent or minimize compression, including adjusting compression settings via RMagick and MiniMagick processors, ultimately aiming to improve the efficiency of image processing. They also fixed a command line option.
ocrrubytesseractruby-librarytesseract-ocr
jdwsep/active_merchant
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
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