Frances Ruiz
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Blue Tiger
Greater Asheville United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrances Ruiz is a seasoned full stack engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, accessible web applications and cloud infrastructure for both startups and public sector organizations. She balances hands-on development—translating business requirements into stable, user-focused features—with a knack for lean-agile practices and strong front-end chops from early roles in game and UI development. As co-founder of RuizAbility she applies engineering skills to educational tools for learners, including dyslexia-focused research and tutoring, showing an unusual blend of product empathy and domain specialization. After senior roles at Nava and Handshake and recent work at Blue Tiger, she’s currently taking time for personal projects and family while remaining open to selective part-time consulting. Based in Greater Asheville, Frances brings disciplined technical delivery plus a creative background in languages and writing that informs clear communication and thoughtful UX.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Creative Writing / Spanish English, Modern Languages, Creative Writing / Spanish English, Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
decks10
parking9
simplify9
webmap7
react5
frontend2
graphql2
aws1
nodejs1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cityofasheville/maps
May 2018 - Sep 2018
City of Asheville Web Maps
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
webmap
cityofasheville/wheres-parking
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Real time updates on available parking spots in parking decks for the City of Asheville
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
real-time-updatesupdatesparking-spotsparkingspots
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