Ralph Luaces is a Staff Cloud Engineer at Toast, where employment began in September 2025. Prior to this role, Ralph held the position of Senior Software Engineer II focused on Edge Infrastructure at Instacart from February 2021 to August 2025. Ralph's expertise in infrastructure engineering was further developed during tenure at Invitae as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer from May 2018 to January 2021, where notable achievements included implementing a highly available secrets management strategy using Hashicorp Vault and managing an AMI build pipeline for AWS EC2 instances. Ralph's experience as a Site Reliability Engineer at Box from January 2015 to May 2018 involved creating an internal web application that streamlined production account changes and migrating systems to Kubernetes. Earlier roles include serving as a NOC Engineer at Giganews from March 2013 to January 2015, where responsibilities included high availability service monitoring and server provisioning. Ralph Luaces earned a Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from Texas A&M University between 2008 and 2012.
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