Marc Richards
Senior Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Richards is a Senior Systems Development Engineer at AWS with a decade of experience focused on performance engineering across core cloud services including EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda and networking. He performs deep-dive benchmarking studies, translating complex measurements into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and service teams. Prior to AWS he spent nearly a decade as a cloud solutions architect and earlier built web systems and analytics in banking and higher education, giving him a broad operational perspective. He contributes to high-profile open-source benchmarking work—optimizing libreactor in the TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks to leverage multi-core scheduling, data-locality features, and modern Docker build practices. Based in Seattle and trained in engineering at Swarthmore College, he blends rigorous measurement-driven methods with practical deployment experience. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns nuanced performance data into clear, high-impact engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Engineering, B.Sc., Engineering at Swarthmore CollegeCampion College
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Github Skills (16)
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microbenchmark10
c1110
performance-optimization10
dockers10
benchmarkjs10
gcc9
ubuntu9
build-automation8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
May 2020 - Dec 2020
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the optimization and improvement of the libreactor framework within the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project. They focused on enhancing performance through multi-core utilization, optimization flags, and the implementation of a more efficient platform implementation. Furthermore, the user made significant updates to the build process, including the adoption of multi-stage Docker builds, the integration of Ubuntu and GCC updates, and the utilization of the SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF feature for improved data locality and performance.
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talawah/FrameworkBenchmarks
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Contributions:2 releases, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
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