Or Ricon
Staff Software Engineer at DFINITY
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOr Ricon is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and refining backend systems for large-scale distributed platforms, currently contributing to DFINITY’s Internet Computer. He brings deep expertise in code quality, monitoring, and maintainability—evidenced by focused refactoring, health-check integrations, and extensive clippy-driven cleanups in a high-profile blockchain repo. His background includes senior engineering and principal roles at Walmart Global Tech and SecurityScorecard, where he led backend architecture and delivery. With an MSc in Autonomous Systems from Technion and a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he combines systems-level rigor with practical production engineering. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, he pairs a strong academic foundation with a track record of improving reliability and observability in complex, mission-critical codebases.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Autonomous Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Autonomous Systems at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ort Braude College
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (7)
nginx-configuration10
rust10
nginx-conf10
back-end-development10
cicd9
monitoring9
opentelemetry7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 215 commits, 43 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Or's commits primarily focus on implementing and refactoring back-end logic within the Internet Computer blockchain source code. Their work includes extensive clippy fixes to address coding style issues, refactoring the prober codebase and the nginx configuration to work with new components. These contributions suggest a focus on code quality, maintainability, and integrating new features related to health checks and monitoring.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
rikonor/go-ann
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Approximate Nearest Neighbor using the MRPT algorithm
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
nearest-neighbornearestnearest-neighborsneighbormrpt
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