Josh Richer
Staff Software Development Engineer at Moody's Analytics
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Richer is a Staff Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, multitenant, high-concurrency climate and risk modeling platforms. He currently architects fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems at Moody's Analytics / RMS, translating complex environmental science into production-grade services. With a PhD-focused background in bioinformatics and applied machine learning, he brings uncommon domain depth—combining life-sciences research rigor with practical large-scale engineering. Previously he’s bridged roles from data science to software engineering across healthcare, agriculture, and financial risk, giving him a strong interdisciplinary approach to modeling and data pipelines. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, he’s comfortable leading system design and shipping resilient distributed systems that power enterprise analytics.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biological Design (conc. Bioinformatics), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biological Design (conc. Bioinformatics) at Arizona State UniversityBA Chemistry, BA Chemistry at Goshen College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
python9
data-structure9
pandas9
data-structures8
data-analysis8
data-science8
scala5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshuaar/UDPHole_example
Jun 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
joshuaar/ProteomeMotifFinder
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:20 commits in 2 months
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