Richard Bishop
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Bishop is a Senior Software Engineer in San Diego with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and managed database services. He has led teams and shipped production-critical projects across AWS and Snowflake, including bringing a managed Postgres service to market and work on distributed consensus, log replication, and high-performance database scaling. Richard combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—scaling multi-cloud Postgres at Crunchy Data (acquired by Snowflake) and driving platform features at AWS that enabled macOS support and durable replication. He focuses on turning cloud infrastructure into competitive advantage for enterprises in healthcare, finance, and data platforms. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and outcomes-driven, with an engineer’s curiosity that occasionally surfaces in witty GitHub bios like “I enjoy long walks on the beach.”
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (83)
elixir10
basic-authentication10
authorize9
scalable8
linux8
authentication8
realtime8
datadog8
functional-programming8
telemetry8
phoenix-framework8
api-server8
web-application7
ruby-sdk7
programming-language7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rbishop/plug_basic_auth
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
HTTP Basic Authentication for Plug
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
basic-authentication
rbishop/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:111 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 8 months
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