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I turn complex platforms into durable products.

I’m Andi Ruda—an engineering leader and technical player-coach building business-critical SaaS, payments, analytics, and cloud platforms.

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Engineering Manager at Rhythm Software · Founder of Ruda Works

Andi Ruda
Currently leading4 engineers
Tenant scale250 tenants
3.3Musers on the platform I help lead
7.3KAWS Lambda functions
620REST APIs across the ecosystem
29Angular applications

Selected impact

Proof, not adjectives.

Three examples of how I approach platform work: understand the real risk, create leverage, and leave the system stronger than I found it.

01

Embedded analytics

Turning an integration into a multi-tenant product capability

I led the architecture and hands-on delivery of a secure Omni BI platform designed for a platform-wide paid add-on—not a one-off dashboard embed.

The challenge

Product teams needed flexible analytics without weakening tenant isolation or granting broad builder and AI access.

The outcome

A governed analytics foundation ready to scale across products while keeping elevated capabilities explicit and auditable.

The approach

  • Streamed data from hundreds of DynamoDB tables into a relational analytics layer
  • Created user, tenant, and application-level configuration patterns
  • Separated viewer, builder, and AI capabilities with server-enforced authorization
  • Established reusable integration patterns across services and Angular applications
Omni BIAWSMulti-tenant SaaSAngularPlatform strategy
02

Fintech migration

Making a high-risk token migration previewable, resumable, and safe

I designed and automated a cross-system Stripe and Payrix migration that moved thousands of payment tokens across 10 tenants with effectively zero customer-visible downtime.

The challenge

Fragmented customer mappings and manual reconciliation created meaningful payment, data-integrity, and operational risk.

The outcome

A controlled migration system that replaced fragile manual work with traceable decisions and explicit safety gates.

The approach

  • Built preview-first plans, backups, reconciliation, monitoring, and resumable execution
  • Used Step Functions to orchestrate phased workflows and expose progress
  • Added stale-write protection and human review for ambiguous customer matches
  • Enforced consistency between approved customer mappings and token updates
StripePayrixStep FunctionsReconciliationRisk reduction
03

Platform reliability

Modernizing shared AWS foundations without forcing service rewrites

I led the move from AWS SDK v2 to v3 behind a shared internal layer, protecting consuming services while improving the platform’s failure behavior.

The challenge

A widely shared dependency had inconsistent retry and error-handling behavior across a large distributed system.

The outcome

A more maintainable shared foundation with predictable behavior under transient AWS failures and rate limits.

The approach

  • Designed a compatible wrapper architecture for incremental adoption
  • Standardized exponential backoff, throttling behavior, and error handling
  • Coordinated rollout across teams and environments
  • Preserved downstream contracts to reduce migration risk
AWS SDK v3Node.jsDistributed systemsReliabilityModernization

Leadership built in the work

Executive judgment. Engineering depth. Product instinct.

My best work happens where the architecture is consequential, the path is ambiguous, and the team needs both clear direction and a leader willing to get close to the implementation.

I build teams that can reason about the whole system—customer value, operational risk, delivery pressure, and the code that connects them.
Make risk visibleDesign for ownershipProtect the long game

2025 — Present

Engineering Manager

Rhythm Software

Lead a four-engineer team across delivery, coaching, performance, and technical direction for a 250-tenant platform serving 3.3M users across 7.3K Lambda functions, 620 REST APIs, and 29 Angular applications.

2021 — 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Rhythm Software

Designed and delivered platform applications, APIs, and reusable TypeScript libraries across Angular, Node.js, and AWS.

2019 — 2021

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

BBVA

Led enterprise initiatives from planning through delivery, including infrastructure automation, high-volume data pipelines, and complex production support.

2015 — 2019

Director of Development

Dealership Performance CRM

Led an organization of up to 10 across engineering, QA, and product while owning roadmap, architecture, delivery, hiring, and budget decisions.

2011 — 2015

Team Lead

Dealer Spike

Managed a senior support team and coordinated cross-functional technical work across engineering, launch, SEO, and client operations.

How I operate

Built for the messy middle.

I bridge strategy and implementation: translating high-stakes business needs into systems teams can ship, operate, and improve.

Leadership

People & delivery

Coaching, hiring, performance, roadmap sequencing, stakeholder alignment, and teams that can own outcomes—not just tickets.

01

Systems

Platforms at scale

Multi-tenant SaaS, event-driven systems, shared foundations, API design, and architecture that stays operable as complexity grows.

02

Execution

Business-critical change

Payments, migrations, embedded analytics, compliance-sensitive workflows, and deliberate rollouts where failure has real consequences.

03

Operations

Cloud operations

AWS serverless architecture, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and cost-aware technical decisions.

04
AWS LambdaDynamoDBSNS / SQSStep FunctionsTypeScriptNode.jsAngularReactCloudFormationCDKStripePayrix

Founder & product builder

I build outside the org chart, too.

Through Ruda Works, I take products from an empty page to a working system—product thesis, interaction design, architecture, implementation, billing, and operations.

Visit the venture studio

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Long Rest

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GovTech · Enterprise

CivicPort

A configurable municipal platform that gives residents one understandable front door and staff clearer workflows behind it.

EdTech · Generative AI

Time Tales

A full-stack AI storytelling product with branching narratives, cited generation, image and audio workflows, family roles, billing, and release operations.

Let’s build what matters

Have a hard platform problem?

I’m exploring Senior Engineering Manager and Director-level roles with teams building consequential SaaS, platform, fintech, analytics, or AI products.

Start a conversationandiruda@gmail.com
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