R Driskel
Senior Engineering Manager at theScore
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolR Driskel is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and cross-functional teams, currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager at theScore. He excels at turning complex organizational and technical problems into pragmatic solutions, having led hiring and onboarding for hundreds of engineers during hypergrowth at BlockFi and driven platform modernization and OEM integrations at Dealer Inspire. A hands-on manager who prioritizes engineer happiness and measurable delivery, he combines deep AWS and API experience with a knack for processes that reveal bottlenecks and boost productivity. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he blends startup grit and enterprise rigor—maintaining 100% retention on teams he’s led—and has a background in research-grade ranking algorithms from his MS at Illinois Institute of Technology. Notably, he values high standards and a culture of continuous improvement, and will advocate fiercely for his teams (sometimes to the beat of Daft Punk).
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
playing10
react-library9
react7
online-game3
phaser2
rendering2
video-chat2
stock2
socket-io2
chat2
macos1
typescript1
websocket1
webrtc1
browser1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryandriskel/18xx
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
A platform for playing 18xx games online!
Contributions:405 pushes, 242 branches in 1 year 6 months
18xxgamegamesonline-gamesplaying
ryandriskel/FreeBoardGames.org
May 2020 - Nov 2020
FOSS platform for publishing boardgame.io games
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
publishinggamesfossboardgameboardgame-io
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