Ruben Duque is a seasoned Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 18 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, automation, and tooling at scale. Fluent in Python as his go-to language, he pairs practical scripting skills in Perl and PHP with systems-level experience in C/C++ and microcontroller firmware from hardware-hacking projects. At Amazon since 2011, he moved from support into software development and infrastructure work, contributing to projects that automate CloudFormation testing and project scaffolding (notably enhancements to the aws-ia/taskcat workflow). He is comfortable across databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB), multiple VCS, Unix administration, and web backends, and has a track record of bootstrapping proof-of-concept systems on EC2. Pragmatic and curious, Ruben often bridges software and hardware domains—having built an Android-controlled IR emitter and written its firmware—bringing a maker’s mentality to production engineering problems.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Florida International University
Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily focused on implementing a project generator for the TaskCat project. Their contributions involved creating a file system service, developing templates, and integrating these components to create a new project structure from predefined templates. The user also added functionality to traverse project templates and create project directories, indicating a focus on automating the project setup process. This work directly supports testing CloudFormation templates.
Contributions:49 commits, 25 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dockerfilesdocker-composedocker
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