Mathias Ricken
Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMathias Ricken is a software engineer with nine years of industry experience, currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s SDK team in Seattle. He builds reliable, easy-to-use cloud SDKs and APIs, having led releases and added networking management features to the prominent oci-java-sdk. Previously he was a senior engineer at Amazon and Tableau and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in programming languages and software engineering, bringing research-grade rigor to production systems. Comfortable across backend systems, developer tooling, and server infrastructure, he also contributes to engineering community practices within Oracle. An amateur mountaineer, he blends methodical problem-solving from academia with a practical focus on shipping robust cloud developer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Rice University
German, English
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
api10
sdk10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
date-time-conversion6
hash6
dist-cp6
android6
oracle-cloud-infrastructure6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/oci-java-sdk
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SDK for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 6 reviews, 47 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mathias's contributions focused on releasing new versions of the Java SDK for Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services. These releases included updates and additions to the VirtualNetworkAsync interface, introducing new methods for managing networking resources such as cross-connects, virtual circuits, and DHCP options. The user's work involved modifying existing code to include these new features and updating documentation links within the code.
javaoracleoracle-cloud-infrastructuresdkoracle-cloud
oracle/oci-hdfs-connector
Mar 2020 - May 2022
HDFS Connector for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Contributions:22 releases, 6 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 3 months
hdfsoracleoracle-cloud-infrastructurecloudoracle-cloud
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