Eric Richardson
Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation
Redondo Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Richardson is an engineering specialist with 11 years of software experience and a long-standing involvement in the Scala community since 2011, combining functional and object-oriented expertise across C, Java, and Scala. He currently applies his skills at The Aerospace Corporation while contributing significant low-level improvements to scala-native—adding Java core library methods, native BLAS, and complex math routines to bring high-performance capabilities to native Scala. His background spans aerospace, ground-station software, big-data pipelines (Spark/Kafka), and full-stack J2EE systems, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level and application-level depth. A former Air Force Captain and AWACS pilot, he pairs disciplined engineering with practical tooling experience (sbt, Docker, LLVM) and a track record of porting large Java codebases to multiple Scala platforms. An endurance athlete off-duty, he brings persistence and methodical problem solving to challenging performance and interoperability work.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Materials Engineering at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering at Arizona State UniversityCollege Prep, College Prep at Traverse City Central High School
Italian
Github Skills (8)
text-manipulation10
javas10
strings10
java10
scala10
java-native-interface9
memory-management9
multithreading8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
scala-native/scala-native
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Your favorite language gets closer to bare metal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:583 reviews, 134 commits, 202 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on implementing and enhancing core functionalities within the `scala-native/scala-native` repository. Their work included implementing missing methods for java.lang.Character and java.lang.String's toUpperCase and toLowerCase, and adding methods for java.util.Properties, java.util.Optional and java.util.TimeZone. They also implemented java.util.Date and java.nio.Buffer and contributed to the inclusion of various low-level memory and data structures within the project. These changes improved the feature set and overall capabilities of the Scala Native project.
scala-nativebare-metalmetalnativecompiler
ekrich/sbt-scripting
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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