Ronald Desmarais
Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Labs
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRonald Desmarais is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently driving platform work at Walmart Labs. He holds a PhD in scheduling and control theory applied to cloud computing and has a strong background in cost-optimized cloud orchestration from research powering CERN workloads and EC2 spot strategies. His career spans applied research, systems architecture, and production engineering across academia and industry—from adaptive optics instrumentation and mechatronics to large-scale retail infrastructure. Known for bridging deep algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering, he delivers reliable, scalable solutions that reduce operational cost and improve throughput.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software, 7.97/9.0 - Graduting GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Software, 7.97/9.0 - Graduting GPA at University of VictoriaSt. Boniface Diocesan
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Github Skills (8)
image-management6
openstack-horizon6
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openstack3
uml3
vms2
squid2
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hep-gc/glint-service
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 25 pushes in 5 months
rd37/glintify
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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