September 2026 Awardee
Ross McEwen
Software Architect
Ross McEwen is a Software Architect in the Software Engineering and Technical Services department and our Employee of the Month. Throughout his tenure, Ross has focused on making our core systems stronger, more reliable, and easier for the team to support. Among his recent achievements, Ross restored waitlist and financial aid push notifications to TXST Mobile - functionality that had been offline since our August 2025 app transition. In doing so, he modernized the underlying service, built in automated integration testing, and resolved long-standing reliability issues to ensure a seamless experience for students.
Beyond restoring core functionality, Ross has established a practice of leveraging AI tools to maintain source-of-truth documentation across rapid feature iterations. On the VA Certification project where fast-moving project decisions related to a single requirement frequently spanned multiple bug and feature requests, he used AI-driven analysis to evaluate code against documented requirements. This allowed the project lead to correct tickets at the root level and confirm zero drift remained. To complement this, Ross developed custom tooling to make the application's complex logic digestible for incoming team members. Facing a project board with over 200 issues, Ross gave a newly onboarded developer the exact context and tooling needed to fully understand the system's architecture, turning what would have taken weeks of deciphering into a fast, confident handover.
Demonstrating his continuous investment in improving university process workflows, Ross has also developed a solution, currently in final testing, to resolve data discrepancies between SAP and the Kuali Research system. Once released, this fix will eliminate nightly HR feed errors across 20 departments and align 47 outdated department names. Through his technical expertise, proactive problem-solving, and commitment to knowledge sharing, Ross has ensured our team and campus partners are well-equipped for continued success.
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