Ricky Rivera Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Direct strategic technical vision, big picture roadmaps, and people management—guiding recruitment, mentorship, and technical direction of a team of up to 15 engineers. Lead a high-performing team managing 150+ integrations across external marketplaces and internal order systems, ensuring flawless functionality and peak performance in a quickly evolving environment. Oversee and collaborate with team on macro and micro strategies and decisions, including design discussions, code review, and coding.• Pioneered a groundbreaking new integration framework and platform, reducing integration time by 50% and enabling the creation of numerous new integrations• Successfully managed team dynamics, fostering strong employee retention/satisfaction, notably during turbulent periods (e.g., COVID pandemic, corporate acquisitions)• Championed for writing dozens of new integrations, enhancing system functionality and streamlining operations• Dramatically scaled operational capacity in response to 2020's surge in ecommerce and shipping

Austin, Tx, Us

Actualized strategic vision, spearheading development, design, DevOps, customer interactions, hiring, mentoring, and people management. Drove strategic cost-saving initiatives, revamping deployment models for enhanced functionality and cost-effectiveness. Played an integral role in the company’s expansion through various initiatives, including leading the launch of an international London office and contributing to diverse portfolio of technical projects (e.g., user-facing front-end applications, data processing pipelines, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure).• Seventh employee and third engineer with the company.• Slashed AWS spending by over $2MM per year via strategic cost reductions and optimized deployment, significantly bolstering operational efficiency• Established and launched an international London office within 2 years, proving pivotal in amplifying the company's global presence and market penetration• Rearchitected the deployment model for our customer-facing application, saving hundreds of dollars a month and reducing errors• Collaborated directly with UK educational institutions, tailoring products and refining processes to align with the specific needs of the UK higher education market• Simultaneously managed engineers and made substantial individual contributions in a "player-coach" role.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

(Journey Education Marketing was acquired by Digital River in September 2010.)

Dallas, Texas, Us

Journey Education Marketing runs a family of e-commerce stores focused on educators and students. I worked as a full-stack software engineer on custom e-commerce and back-office platforms primarily built with PHP & MySQL.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us