Zac Ruiz
Co-Founder at The Select Group
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZac Ruiz is a founder and data-focused engineering leader with nearly two decades building explainable, high-confidence data systems for financial markets and enterprise clients. As co-founder of CMD+RVL he designs metadata-first infrastructure that enforces lineage, freshness, and defensible short-horizon signals so analysts and investors can trust every chart and number. His background ranges from hands-on systems and architect roles at DBRS and TD Waterhouse to founding Salt IO and leading enterprise transformation at The Select Group, showing a blend of product, ops, and engineering depth. Zac’s work emphasizes decision assurance over black-box analytics, turning the common blind spot of “unexamined data” into verifiable inputs for rapid decisions. He mentors early-career engineers, advises data-driven firms in capital markets and real assets, and is equally likely to be baking slow-rise bread or cooking a complex meal when not designing feedback loops. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs electrical engineering roots with practical experience shipping frequent, production-grade systems that scale trust as well as intelligence.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of DelawareOcean City High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
data-catalog10
metadata10
python9
data-science8
unit-testing6
xml6
design-patterns6
xsd6
singleton6
xml-serialization6
parsing6
windows3
executable1
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SaltIO/amundsen
Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Contributions:20 PRs, 168 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years
scientistspythondatadata-scienceanalysts
Cubbal25/slate
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Beautiful static documentation for your API
Contributions:19 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 comments in 1 month
apiopenapimarkdownapi-documentation
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