Will Rodriguez
Director Of Software Engineering at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWill Rodriguez is a Director of Software Engineering with a decade of experience building and leading teams to deliver scalable web and marketing platforms. Based in New York, he has progressed from junior programmer to director at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK, blending hands-on system architecture and database design with people and project management. He is fluent across Go, JavaScript/React, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch and multiple SQL engines, and has a track record shipping API layers and production deployments for customer-facing products. Will has led fully remote engineering teams and managed concurrent legacy and greenfield efforts, showing an ability to balance technical debt with new feature delivery. His background includes CTO-level responsibility early in his career, which informs a pragmatic, business-focused approach to technical decisions. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who pairs deep implementation knowledge with clear sprint and stakeholder management.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The City College of New York
English, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
wkhtmltopdf6
ruby6
rubygems6
mruby5
html-to-pdf5
package5
middleware4
packaging4
rspec4
sketchup4
package-manager4
transform4
api3
command-line-utility3
test-kitchen3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
willrodriguez/training
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:44 pushes in 1 month
willrodriguez/rei
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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