Michael Angelo Ruta

Fifteen years shipping production software across web, mobile, data and infrastructure – the last several focused on applied AI: LLM agents and tooling, speech and translation pipelines, computer vision, and the plumbing that makes them run reliably. Founder of Uchū-Neko and senior engineer at SpectrumOne, with remote clients across the US, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Senior Developer - SpectrumOne - Remote

(2020-01)

• Top contributor on base10 Genetics (2020–23, 5+ engineers) — rebuilt patient registration, owned the PGx wizard-to-payment flow, all NGx/PGx report generation and the Salesforce sync; retained as the last engineer on the project.
• ~30% of delivery on RyzeHealth/WeCare, a two-portal medical-insurance platform built by 4 engineers — onboarding, storefront and messaging on Node, Postgres, Prisma and AWS, plus a Chrome extension scraping 7 EMR systems.
• Led internal AI research: agent tooling, retrieval pipelines, speech translation and generative media prototypes that shipped into product.

Founder - Uchū-Neko - Remote

(2017-01)

Designs, builds and operates every product end to end — architecture, UI, infrastructure, support and the commercial side.

Senior Developer - NIS Iloopp

(2014-01 - 2019-12)

• Sole architect of Iloopp Toolbox — the company's core platform for campaigns, workflows, ETL and batch/stream processing, with an integrated rules engine and complex-event processor; built on six months of funded R&D.
• Led a wing of 1 junior engineer and 3 junior data scientists, supporting 3 analysts; published 50+ Node-RED nodes for Toolbox v2 (Cassandra, map-reduce, WebHDFS, Rekognition, LDA, CUDA, loop.ai).
• Data engineering across ELK, Splunk and SQL at ~100 GB to petabyte scale, plus custom D3 and Sisense visualisation plug-ins.

Board of Directors - TouchGate

(2018-01 - 2019-12)

• Built eMenu solo in six months: a standalone ordering appliance on low-cost hardware — custom Debian image, Chromium kiosk, ad-hoc Wi-Fi captive portal, per-table QR codes, hardware-bound AES-256 licensing.

Team Lead, Java - Danadaq Pte Ltd - Singapore

(2013-01 - 2014-12)

• Modernised LinkGUI into LinkWorkbench, front end of a multi-million-dollar telecom rules platform — replaced the jQuery UI layer with Bootstrap and rebuilt the Service Editor, its most complex screen.
• Promoted from solo contributor to lead of a 4-person Java team after six months; delivered against decompiled JARs with no repository access and a frozen API.

Web Developer - AMTI

(2011-01 - 2013-12)

• 18-month migration of AIMIS — the ERM system carrying every AMTI transaction — from PowerBuilder 5 to Grails/Java, as one of 5 engineers on the rewrite.

Software Developer - Freelance

(2005-01)

Two decades of independent contracts — iOS and Android apps, web platforms, audio production, hardware and IoT builds, and computer repair before all of it.

BS - Information Systems - University of Santo Tomas (2007-01 - 2011-12)