Richard Arriaga
Softare Engineer Contractor at Avail
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Arriaga is a senior software engineer and contractor with 13 years of experience designing and shipping IoT, mobile, and server-side systems, currently leading technical efforts at Gilson while running his own consultancy, Bitwise Arts. He brings deep JVM expertise in Java and Kotlin, production Rust and TypeScript experience, and a track record of building cross-language frameworks—most notably a compact versioned polymorphic binary serialization implemented across Kotlin, Rust, and TypeScript. Richard has architected end-to-end solutions from BLE device firmware and OTA update pipelines to multi-tenant time-series document stores and custom database tooling, often bridging embedded, cloud, and mobile domains. A long-time contributor to the Avail open-source language project, he combines language/runtime insight with practical product delivery and a history of mentoring engineers and shaping project requirements. His academic background in mathematics and classical civilizations complements a methodical, research-driven approach—he’s comfortable “counting bytes” at the lowest level and translating standards (EtherCAT, IO-Link) into robust implementations.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Classical Civilizations, Bachelor’s Degree, Classical Civilizations at Florida State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at University of South FloridaMaster’s Degree, Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Mathematics at Cleveland State University
English
Github Skills (18)
virtual-machine10
programming-language9
standard-library9
interpreter9
compiler8
java5
javafx5
data-format4
rich-text-editor4
kotlin3
json3
rich-text3
stringbuilder3
json-data2
state-machine2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
richATavail/WebServer
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
web-serverextendedserverhandleprotocols
AvailLang/avail-json
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
Read and write freeform JSON with precise error checking.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 10 months
interchange-formatarbitraryecmabuilderdata-interchange
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