Ed Ruder
Edward G. "Ed" Ruder (born c.1960) is a software engineer who was the 29th employee at Apple Computer.
Early life and education[]
Ruder learned BASIC as a young student in the 1970s and was coding in 6502 assembly language in high school.[1] He graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory of San Jose in 1978 and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University in 1982.[2]
Career[]
Apple Computer[]
Ruder worked in production at the bottom right area of this old office diagram from 1977.
Ruder started working part-time for Apple Computer in December of 1977, in the offices at 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd., while he finished his senior year at Bellarmine. Ruder worked full-time for Apple during the summers of 1978 and 1979, in the production department.
After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1982, Ruder formed Encore Systems with Randy Wigginton and Don Breuner. The company, which was later renamed The Software Department, entered into a contract with Apple to create MacWrite.[2]
After Apple[]
In 1992, Ruder joined Storm Technology to develop software to manipulate full-color images on desktop computers. In December 1998, he joined Intuit to work on QuickBooks. In January 2012, he joined Square, Inc. Ruder was most recently the vice president of engineering at Apto Payments from September 2019 to November 2021.[2]
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See also[]
External links[]
- Ed Ruder blog
- Ed Ruder at GitHub
- Edward Ruder at Justia Patents
Articles[]
- Twiggy Lives! At the Computer Museum at the Twiggy Mac pages (2013-09-11, archived 2015-05-07)
