Rich Gillam
Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Gillam is a seasoned software engineer in San Jose with deep expertise in C++, Java, Unicode, and multilingual natural language processing, currently contributing at Apple. With a career spanning major engineering roles at Taligent, IBM, Lab126, and Apple, he brings decades of experience shipping internationalization and text-processing features across large-scale products. He is a recognized expert in software internationalization and an active contributor to the ICU open-source project, where his backend work improved date/time formatting and robustness in a widely used Unicode library. Rich blends low-level systems skill with language-aware design, often solving subtle locale and parsing edge cases that break conventional implementations. His background in music (BM from Eastman School of Music) hints at a disciplined, pattern-oriented approach to complex engineering problems. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he repeatedly turns intricate internationalization requirements into reliable, production-ready code.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BM, BM at University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music
Github Skills (8)
date-formatting10
time-format10
c-language10
datetime-format10
date-format10
cprogramming-language10
javas8
java8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1010 reviews, 45 commits, 202 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rich contributed code to the ICU project, primarily focusing on enhancements to date and time formatting functionalities. They added support for hour and day-period skeleton characters to DateIntervalFormat, improved the handling of hour characters, and corrected a bug in SimpleDateFormat regarding quarter name parsing. Additionally, the user made modifications to improve the robustness of the resource handling and fixed a bug in OlsonTimeZone constructor.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
richgillam/icu
Aug 2020 - Jul 2026
The new home of the ICU project source code.
Contributions:369 pushes, 194 branches in 5 years 11 months
icu
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