Nicolas Richard
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Richard is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in compute orchestration and platform engineering with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure in high-throughput environments. Based in San Francisco, he has led production-critical projects such as Chime’s MySQL Aurora v5→v8 migration with five minutes of downtime and operationalized multiple EKS clusters, ArgoCD, and AWS LBC at scale. He drives measurable cost and reliability improvements through pragmatic choices—Datadog trace sampling, EC2 Spot adoption, and HPA—while routinely resolving high-priority incidents as an on-call SME. Previously he designed event-driven e-commerce integrations and infra-as-code patterns at Modsy that automated 50% of merchandising orders and made financial data auditable. His background spans data engineering for billions of daily events to platform work on Django and Rails backends, giving him a rare combination of low-latency data pipeline know-how and cloud-native production ops. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical trade-offs and repeatable infrastructure patterns that reduce blast radius and lower onboarding friction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) | Dual-Degree Student Information Management, Master of Science (MSc) | Dual-Degree Student Information Management at Asian Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Maths and Physics, Bachelor's degree Maths and Physics at Lycée Saint LouisEngineer's degree Information Management Computer Science and Telecomunications, Engineer's degree Information Management Computer Science and Telecomunications at Télécom SudParis
English, French, Spanish, Thai
Github Skills (38)
stacker10
robot10
pong10
playing9
aws9
performance-monitoring8
spring-boot8
distributed-tracing8
youtube8
high-availability7
python7
microservices6
deep-learning6
ruby-client6
docker6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nicolas-Richard/Programming-Interviews-Problems
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 11 pushes in 5 months
llSourcell/pong_neural_network_live
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
This is the code for "Pong Neural Network(LIVE)" by @Sirajology on Youtube
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years 10 months
pythondeep-learningpongmachine-learningyoutube
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