John Richter
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Richter is an Executive Distinguished Engineer with a long track record of designing large-scale collaboration systems, from being a central designer of Google Docs collaboration to founding the Drive Realtime API and leading Drive web frontend and developer platform efforts. He now focuses on AI-enabled product capabilities in digital commerce and on social-good engineering—most recently creating Open Product Recovery, an open-source standard and reference implementation that helps donors and charities share surplus food across cloud infrastructures. John blends hands-on infrastructure and product work with leadership of distributed engineering teams and cross-company privacy-safe measurement initiatives. His background spans bioinformatics tooling (creator of OBO-Edit and contributor to Apollo) to early distributed computing research as an undergraduate, reflecting a persistent interest in connecting people and data. He often publishes under both John Richter and John Day-Richter when researching his work.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
high school the usual, high school the usual at St. Croix Country Day SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Yale University
SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CaravanStudios/open-product-recovery
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:67 reviews, 90 commits, 67 PRs in 3 months
Sam-Gram/open-product-recovery
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Typo fix for FoodEx2 classification example
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
fixpythonmachine-learningtypoclassification
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