Ronald Ho

Senior Developer | CI CD | Technical Solutions

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

About

As a senior developer with 7+ years of experience across healthcare, education, and payments sectors, I specialize in delivering robust, scalable solutions that directly impact customers and drive business success. Throughout my career, I've combined strong technical expertise (Python, NodeJS, AWS, Swift) with a customer-centric approach — collaborating with C-Suite stakeholders to design tailored solutions, leading technical enablement sessions, and ensuring smooth product launches with zero major issues. Whether optimizing cloud infrastructure, integrating complex healthcare data systems, or building custom interactive installations for real-world audiences, my passion lies in translating technical challenges into real-world outcomes that users love. I'm excited to continue building solutions that matter — and partner with teams that value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.

Experience

  • CI/CD Programmer Analyst II at The University of British Columbia
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    At UBC IT, I support the university’s enterprise data integration platform by building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Mulesoft environments. My work focuses on improving the reliability and automation of releases for campus-wide systems, helping technical teams deliver integrations faster and with higher quality. I collaborate with senior analysts and developers to design and implement DevOps pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning, and integrate static/dynamic security scans, automated testing, and monitoring into the deployment lifecycle. I also contribute to developing best practices and documentation that guide how new teams onboard to the university’s CI/CD standards. This role has given me a front-row view of large-scale enterprise automation — balancing governance, compliance, and innovation — and continues to deepen my experience in AWS DevOps, continuous delivery, and technical enablement within a complex academic environment.

  • Mentor and Advisory Board Member at Game of Apps
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    - Develop curriculum aimed at high school youth to teach design thinking and evangelize best development practices through the use of technology. - Assisted in all facets of the program, from intake interviews to spearheading weekly programming challenges that help the youth build stronger foundational skills in development. - Part of the advisory board to advise and deliver on critical KPIs and metrics that allow us to continue our non profit work through grants and funding from government and private industry

  • Freelance Developer (Client Solutions Projects) at Freelance
    Jun 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    - Installed and customized interactive real-world exhibits for museums, leading technical consultation and client training on system use. - Project managed cross functionally: balancing technical delivery, vendor coordination, and client satisfaction. - Designed and programmed a custom Swift iOS App, streamlining capture workflow for client applications. - Delivered full-stack web solutions, creating Angular/NodeJS applications integrating external APIs and databases to meet customer specifications.

  • Senior Software Developer at BrainTest Inc.
    Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Improved business analytics efficiency by reducing PostgreSQL query latency by 50% via targeted optimizations. - Planned & launched 2 full cycle projects with 0 P1 level issues through rigorous unit testing, prototyping and monitoring. - Automated data entry, saving > 10 hours/week, reducing errors and human intervention by implementing a complex HIPAA Compliant Epic electronic health record (EHR) integration for translating JSON data into FHIR and HL7 formats. - Increased customer satisfaction and achieved a 0 refund rate in subsequent quarters by integrating Stripe Payments and ensuring a smooth cutover from the previous payment provider.

  • Intermediate Software Developer at airG Inc.
    Nov 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Streamlined CI/CD Jenkins pipeline, saving > 10 hours/month in manual deployments by automating launch process. - Reduced spam traffic by 20% on a service with > 100k active users/month using Redis & header analysis. - Mentored and onboarded junior developers in 3-6 months by developing sensible onboarding and technical documentation and modules, as well as pair programming collaboration to work hands-on with peers. - Spearheaded initiative to improve developer productivity by integrating Swagger API documentation in a Perl codebase.