Vander Rice
Architect Quality Engineering at Slalom
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolVander Rice is an Architect Quality Engineering professional with 11 years of experience designing resilient test and CI/CD solutions across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and hybrid distributed systems. He blends deep hands-on skills in Java, Python, Docker, Kafka, NoSQL, Terraform/Terragrunt and ELK with a strong software architecture mindset to improve delivery velocity and observability. At Slalom he progressed from Senior Quality Engineer to Architect, leading teams to implement scalable pipelines and production-focused test strategies for complex web and data systems. His background includes building testing and performance tooling at Oracle and NetSuite, and early experience in big data and full-stack development, which gives him an unusual cross-cutting view of system health from frontend to infra. Vander is exploring generative AI for code analysis and brings creative interests in music to his problem-solving style, often mentoring teams toward pragmatic, measurable quality improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Math & Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Math & Computer Science, 3.45 GPA at Colorado School of MinesPonderosa High School
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Github Skills (17)
internet-explorer6
csv6
angular6
sql-server6
sql6
sqoop6
angularjs6
javascript6
sql-script6
mysql6
grid5
polymer4
grid-layout4
datagrid3
scaffold2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vanxrice/social-post-icons
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
polymericonsiconset
vanxrice/gravatar-polymer-profile
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 27 days
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