Logan Riggs is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of professional experience and a long-tenured career across major tech companies including Tableau, Amazon, Boeing, and currently Dremio in Seattle. He has progressed from core engineering roles to lead software engineer responsibilities at Tableau, focusing on backend server logic, authentication, compression, and configuration systems. Logan contributes to notable open-source projects such as TabPy, where he improved API security, enabled gzip compression, and refactored configuration parsing to support custom parsers. He excels at making production services more flexible and secure, with a pragmatic approach to refactoring and testing. Trained in both computer science and archaeology at Central Washington University, he brings analytical rigor and attention to detail informed by interdisciplinary curiosity. Colleagues describe him as a dependable engineering lead who pairs deep technical chops with practical delivery across data and analytics platforms.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Archaeology, BS, Computer Science, Archaeology at Central Washington University
Execute Python code on the fly and display results in Tableau visualizations:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 25 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Logan contributed to the TabPy project by implementing features related to authentication, gzip compression, and configuration parsing. They modified the service info handler to secure the API and added the functionality to enable gzip compression for request and response data. The user also refactored the configuration parsing mechanism to allow for custom parsers, improving the flexibility of the application. These changes involved modifying core application files and tests, demonstrating a focus on back-end server-side logic.
Contributions:41 releases, 1 PR, 63 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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