Richard Anton
Technical Fellow at Walmart Global Tech
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Anton is a technical fellow and AI-focused software leader with over 20 years of engineering experience and six years in senior leadership roles, currently shaping developer productivity and GenAI at Walmart Global Tech. He has held principal engineering posts at Snowflake and Amazon/AWS, led SRE teams at Google, and built both consumer and infrastructure products across cloud, observability, and advertising domains. Richard blends deep systems engineering with cognitive/AI tooling—founding projects like Wordmill.ai and LearnedMemory.com—to improve how humans and machines think together. He pairs hands-on product delivery (from Streamlit Community Cloud integrations to observability platforms) with mentorship and cross-team technical strategy. A former Army communications team chief, he brings disciplined operational rigor and a knack for shipping practical, reliable systems at scale.
5 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Drexel UniversityAS Associate of Science, AS Associate of Science at Excelsior UniversityMississippi School for Mathematics and ScienceMississippi State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Thomas Edison State University
Github Skills (41)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
time-series10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
prometheus10
methodology10
golang10
scalable10
graphing10
multi-tenant10
observability9
markdown9
storage9
database9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ranton256/cs510_ai_logo_generation
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:35 commits in 12 days
ranton256/rwp-module3
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Module 3 of Real World Python, Developing the Backend
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 months
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