Arc Riley
Software Engineer at Google
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorArc Riley is a seasoned software engineer and longtime FOSS advocate based in Portland, Oregon, with over 20 years of experience in Python and deep expertise in C. He specializes in Python and XML/XMPP, championing open standards, federation, and patent-clear media codecs across projects involving Ogg, WebM, and WebRTC. As a self-employed engineer since the mid-1990s he has worked in 20+ languages, run Linux servers, and practiced rigorous unit testing and CI. Arc has a strong track record mentoring and organizing community programs—former Python Software Foundation program administrator, Google Code-in mentor, and founder of Copyleft Games—having guided hundreds of students in open-source contributions. His combination of low-level systems skill, protocol-level expertise, and long-term commitment to interoperability makes him a rare blend of pragmatic engineer and principled open-source steward.
17 years of coding experience
python, c, rust
Github Skills (95)
linux10
revit-api10
steamvr9
multicore9
pygobject9
management9
sha9
multi-user-chat9
gentoo9
gnome9
rust8
travis8
chat8
gtk-rs8
travis-ci8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
arcriley/python-blogs
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Python Software Foundation GSoC Blog Platform
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 12 days
pythongsocpython-scriptfoundationpython-3
arcriley/zulip
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Zulip server - powerful open source group chat
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
group-chatchatzulip
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