Mark Richer
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Richer is a retired software engineer with 11 years of recent professional experience and a multi-decade career bridging research, product engineering, and IT operations. He has applied deep technical skills to digital forensics, building and testing GOTS forensic tools, integrating Elasticsearch/Kibana, and validating research algorithms for production environments at the Naval Postgraduate School. At American Systems he conducted Independent Technical Risk Assessments for weapon system software and automated office workflows using the Microsoft 365/Power Platform, showing a practical blend of security-minded assessment and hands-on automation. Earlier roles range from C++ GUI development and localization to Salesforce and web service leadership, reflecting comfort across languages, platforms, and enterprise tooling. Mark combines rigorous academic training in interactive educational technology and computer science from Stanford with pragmatic system administration and product-focused engineering, and he often focused on making research systems trustworthy and operationally sustainable. An unexpected throughline in his career is repeatedly translating research or marketing needs into production-ready systems and documentation that nontechnical stakeholders can use.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.I., Education, M.S.I., Education at San Francisco State UniversityB.A., Psychology, B.A., Psychology at Binghamton UniversityM.A., Interactive Educational Technology, M.A., Interactive Educational Technology at Stanford University
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Github Skills (19)
extraction9
duplicate-detection9
tcp-protocol9
bandwidth7
cmd6
home-directory6
command-prompt6
tcp5
network-tools5
snmp4
aix4
netlink4
solaris4
packet4
netfilter4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
simsong/bulk_extractor
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
This is the development tree. Production downloads are at:
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 months
extractionproductionduplicate-detection
simsong/tcpflow
May 2015 - Jul 2015
TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:
Contributions:2 comments in 2 months
bpfsnmpnetwork-toolslinuxnetlink
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