Summary
Rich Rein is an architect and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building mission-critical, globally distributed systems, mobile apps, and big-data platforms for enterprises and startups. He combines hands-on development (Android, iOS, Java, Python, React) with deep distributed-database expertise—designing and tuning Cassandra/DSE clusters for massive write rates and global multi-datacenter deployments. As founder/consultant at Inforte and prior roles at DataStax, Sony, and HearPlanet, he blends product-focused research, direct customer input, and team-building to deliver production-grade analytics, POS, video, and entertainment systems. He’s comfortable moving between code, architecture, and executive-level decisions, and has a track record of scaling systems to millions of users and billions of daily inserts. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex operational constraints into pragmatic runbooks, CI/CD automation, and resilient disaster-recovery plans.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer