Randy Willard
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Willard is a veteran data architect and solutions engineer with deep expertise in big data, MPP RDBMS, and data warehousing who has spent decades turning expensive, ambiguous questions into practical, production-ready systems. He has guided platform and field engineering efforts at companies like Yugabyte, Pivotal, Greenplum and FOSSA, blending hands-on engineering (Java, Ruby, Hadoop) with sales-facing solution design. Comfortable in both central IT and product teams, he pairs systems-level thinking about Unix/Linux operations with application-layer skills in web technologies and database design. Randy’s background spans startups and large enterprise vendors, giving him a knack for pragmatic tradeoffs between architecture, cost and operationalization. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he self-describes simply as a “data guy,” yet brings notable breadth—from low-level DB expertise to customer-facing technical leadership. His career shows a persistent focus on making large-scale data platforms reliable, performant and actionable.
5 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Stackoverflow
36reputation
2kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (16)
database9
sql9
high-performance9
cpp9
databases8
scale-out8
kubernetes8
sql-database8
paxos8
cloud-native8
distributed-database7
yugabytedb7
distributed-systems7
raft7
greenplum6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rjw-41x/dataeng
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
rjw-41x/NewJob
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
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