Thomas Ruggeri

Professional Experience

Amazon Web Services

Portland, OR | Software Development Engineer | 2022 - present

• Lead software engineer on team that built Application Composer service
• Led effort to support Visual Studio Code extension, increasing weekly visitors by 3x
• Created pipeline to automatically deploy to new Aws regions, releasing our service to all 31 commercial regions

Goldbelly

Raleigh, NC (remote) | Lead Software Engineer | 2021 - 2022

• Lead of software team working directly with stake holders and product for multiple projects within the company
• Implement service based architecture across multiple clouds for subscription product
• Architect and developer of system that processes millions of shipping label updates a year

ZipRecruiter

Charleston, SC | Senior Software Engineer II | 2018 - 2021

• Responsible for white label web application receiving 2M visitors per day
• Develop and maintain code and infrastructure deployed in multiple clouds
• Ownership of international platform in 12 foreign countries and nine languages

Snagajob

Charleston, SC | Senior Software Engineer | 2017 - 2018

• Tech lead of scrum team of five software and three QA engineers
• Responsible for containerization and migration of 20 web services between hosting environments
• Developed and maintained web application responsible for $10M annual revenue

Nvidia

Beaverton, OR | Verification Engineer | 2012 - 2017

• Software verification of essential cpu subsystem in custom designed ARM cpu
• Developed lab methodology and framework for power research and validation of dozens of in house and competitive cpus
• Member of cpu “bringup” team for six straight Tegra chips sold in millions of devices including Nintendo Switch

Education

Oregon State University

• Masters of Science, June 2012 Cumulative GPA: 3.80 Electrical and Computer Engineering in low power VLSI
• Bachelors of Science, June 2010 Cumulative GPA: 3.94 Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science

Additional Skill Highlights

• Aws Certified Developer Associate (2018 - 2021)
• Write and maintain web applications using Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, Go, React
• Data storage with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Aws S3, Redis
• Deploy applications using Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), ECS, Terraform, Cloudformation, Aws Serverless, Heroku, git
• Continuous Integration with Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins

Volunteering Experience

TEALS (Microsoft)

2017 - 2018

• Teacher for AP Computer Science at West Ashley High School, Charleston SC
• Worked with school teachers to integrate program curriculum throughout school year

SC Codes

2019 - 2021

• Assist students with course work and questions
• Spoke at “Mentor Monday” Q&A

CodeON

2018 - 2019

• Assistant during in-person sessions with students working on Code.org curriculum