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Ruby Dean

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Principal Engineer at Stripe · WebSockets, Go

Works at
Stripe
Location
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
Virginia Tech
Languages
English, German
Co-founder
Message Connect

Overview

Currently at Stripe, where I work on real-time systems. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 37% in two quarters. Before that: UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft. Most at home with WebSockets and Go. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Working sessions on Go
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Decks without a clear ask

Replies on weekends

Skills
Erlang/OTPWebSocketslow-latency systemsGo
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an operations co-founder for expense management for real-estate developers

The idea
Looking for an operations co-founder for expense management for real-estate developers
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
15 years in AI applications
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
San Jose or remote

I bring 22 years of real-time systems (currently Stripe). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

San Jose, CAerlang/otplow-latency systemswebsockets
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Stripe · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Led or co-led 10 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
    UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Shipped 9 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2017 - Dec 2020
    Microsoft · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 27% in two quarters.
  4. Staff Software Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
    Spotify · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Moved 79% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 878ms to 147ms.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2012 - Apr 2016
    eBay · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Wrote the Erlang/OTP service that now handles 23 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Virginia Tech
    BS, Computer Engineering
    1999 - 2003

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