Gideon Richter
Senior Software Engineer at Planet
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGideon Richter is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lethbridge, Alberta with nine years of professional experience and three years focused in current software roles, building scalable cloud-native systems and APIs in Go, Python, and Scala. He has designed greenfield GCP pipelines to ingest and process hundreds of millions of satellite images using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery, and has production experience with Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, and payment-focused backend work in PHP/Laravel. At Planet he moved from API development into a senior engineering role, demonstrating a practical blend of hands-on coding and system design for geospatial data. A lifelong dog lover, Gideon pairs technical rigor with a down-to-earth curiosity—evident in concise, playful GitHub notes like "tweet tweet"—and brings strong domain knowledge in satellite imagery and agricultural analytics.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CIT Diploma Computer Information Technology, CIT Diploma Computer Information Technology at Lethbridge PolytechnicBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
Github Skills (26)
sonarqube10
api-client10
python-client10
planet10
portal10
client-library9
api9
elasticsearch-client9
python8
plug8
vundle8
flask7
elasticsearch7
elastic7
neovim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Godron629/google-searchresults
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
brett-stephen/killer-robot-game
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
openGL game
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 4 branches in 22 days
openglgame-engineopengl-game
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