Rich Paret is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14 years of experience building high-impact developer platforms, distributed systems, and startups from the ground up. He has led teams and products through multiple acquisitions—most recently founding MarketStreet before joining Anthropic—and previously scaled developer-facing businesses at Twitter and Google after Crashlytics’ acquisition. Rich combines deep systems and architecture experience from early CDN and streaming work to modern developer ecosystems, and he repeatedly focuses on delighting customers while optimizing for speed and equity in hiring. Based in Seattle, he blends operator instincts with hands-on technical judgment and a knack for creating joyful, repeatable team and product practices that survive rapid change.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Management Information Systems at Northeastern University
Contributions:3 PRs, 97 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
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