Richard Anaya
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at Formant
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Anaya is a seasoned AI and software leader with 15 years of experience, currently serving as Head of Artificial Intelligence at Formant in Portland. He blends hands-on engineering—building data pipelines, visualization tools with TypeScript, ThreeJS, WebRTC, Python and Go—and cloud-native architecture on AWS/GCP with strategic technical leadership and customer-facing product work. Previously he enabled large-scale data systems and infrastructure at Magic Leap and shipped core services at Evernote and Charles Schwab, demonstrating deep experience across both startup and enterprise contexts. Richard also contributes to open-source experiments such as a self-modifying, socially governed "Chaos" bot where he implemented backend and DevOps fundamentals, reflecting a taste for unconventional, systems-level challenges. Collectedly, he excels at turning complex robotics and AI requirements into practical, production-ready platforms while influencing product and engineering direction.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Rice University
Github Skills (5)
python10
server10
server-side10
devops9
html6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Chaosthebot/Chaos
May 2017 - May 2017
A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on setting up a basic server and core backend functionality for the "chaos" project. They created a Python-based server using `http.server` and `socketserver` and added a simple HTML index page. The user also implemented a mechanism to change the process name. They then updated the main `chaos.py` script to run the server.
pythonpython3updatessocial-coding
richardanaya/js_ffi
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 139 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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