Richard Anaya
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Anaya is Head of Artificial Intelligence at Formant and a seasoned software and data engineering leader with 14 years of experience based in Portland, Oregon. At Formant he drives AI strategy and hands-on architecture—building data pipelines, robot-management visualizations and cloud-native systems using TypeScript, ThreeJS, WebRTC, Python and Go on AWS/GCP while creating open-source libraries to accelerate customer success. His background includes enabling large-scale data platforms and automation at Magic Leap and prior engineering roles at Evernote and Charles Schwab, giving him deep production and cloud expertise. A self-described "Data Engineer, Code Philosopher & Robot Psychologist," he also contributes to experimental projects like Chaosthebot/Chaos, where he implemented core backend services for a democratically self-updating codebase. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and is known for translating customer needs and technical complexity into pragmatic, high-impact engineering outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
python10
server10
server-side10
devops9
html6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Chaosthebot/Chaos
May 2017 - May 2017
A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on setting up a basic server and core backend functionality for the "chaos" project. They created a Python-based server using `http.server` and `socketserver` and added a simple HTML index page. The user also implemented a mechanism to change the process name. They then updated the main `chaos.py` script to run the server.
pythonpython3updatessocial-coding
richardanaya/js_ffi
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 139 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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