# Josh Ruesch

> Staff Software Engineer at Stripe.

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshruesch

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ VSCO®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, CA
• Implemented various editing tools on both Android and iOS using Metal and OpenGL ES.
• Integrated Rylo image processing stack and video engine into the VSCO app after the acquisition.

### Senior Android Engineer @ Rylo Inc. (acquired by VSCO)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Built and maintained Camera Companion App (MacOS / Android) that to communicated with the Rylo 360° camera using Typescript, Electron, Mithril.js, Java, Kotlin, and C++.

• Designed and implemented transport / caching mechanism to allow real-time stitching, stabilizing, streaming, and editing of 360° 5.8K videos on a mobile phone over USB.

### Platform Software Engineer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
• Worked on initial consumer launch team for both Oculus Rift and GearVR.

• Worked on Core OS team for Oculus Go and upcoming Oculus Quest headset.

• Designed and shipped the Oculus Platform SDK used by Windows / Android developers to integrate various features related to security, social, and privacy (https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/)

• Built and maintained multiple social audio/video products for VR including Livestreaming to Facebook, Party Chat, VR Overlays, and ChromeCast support using WebRTC, OpenGL, and ReactVR.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Music
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
• Worked on initial launch team for the Amazon FirePhone.
• Worked on MVP-based SDK used by the MP3 teams on both FirePhone and FireTV.
• Used dependency injection (Dagger) to increase testability of codebase.
• Collaborated with other Amazon teams to build engaging cross-application experiences such as FireFly and Speech Controls.
• Participated in On-Call to help customers troubleshoot time-sensitive issues. 
• Wrote/optimized SQL queries to help scale to large music libraries.
• Wrote/maintained internal library used to delay server communication to allow instantaneous on-device changes with eventual server consistency.

### Mobile Engineer @ Instructure, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
• Software engineer on the Canvas for Android project, a highly rated application with over 100,000 downloads.
• Collaborated with other development teams on the creation/modification of RESTful API endpoints to enable mobile feature work.
• Successfully integrated 3rd party libraries including Retrofit, GSON, JSoup, etc.
• Wrote build scripts using Bash, Gradle, and Python that integrated with Jenkins.
• Wrote UI automation tests using a Ruby/Cucumber/Calabash stack.

### Mobile Engineer @ Pixio LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• Worked successfully with small team to deliver high quality applications.
• Planned, developed, and maintained large software solutions for clients.
• Oversaw multiple projects from origin to publication on App Store/Play Store.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Utah


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshruesch

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Last updated: 2026-04-05