Richard Cariens
Software Engineer at BTI360
Manassas, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Cariens is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 14 years of focused experience delivering scalable JEE/Groovy/Java solutions and coaching teams in Agile best practices. He has led high-impact projects ranging from enterprise servicer portfolio systems at Freddie Mac to a large-scale intranet search service leveraging Solr/Lucene and social-network patterns at General Dynamics. Known for translating business needs into pragmatic architectures, he has a track record of launching revenue-generating systems quickly and operating high-throughput services such as a widely used blog ping server. Richard pairs hands-on development with mentoring and process improvement, driving test-driven development, pairing, and iterative delivery across distributed teams. Based in Manassas, VA, he combines an aerospace and computer science academic background with deep experience in application "-ilities" like performance, scalability, and maintainability. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he blends systems-level architectural thinking with day-to-day coding, regularly stepping into the codebase to guide refactors and prove designs.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Aerospace Eng., M.S., Aerospace Eng. at Virginia TechM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (10)
rally9
solr7
interoperability7
parser7
language-server5
groovy4
tla3
ide3
language-server-protocol3
cockpit2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
whateverdood/solr-plugins
May 2012 - May 2021
Sandbox for Solr stuffs: custom UpdateRequestProcessors, parser plugins, etc.
Contributions:2 commits in 9 years 1 month
parsersolr
whateverdood/openrally
Mar 2019 - Jan 2024
OpenRally.org - Establishing Rally Interoperability Standards For The World Ahead
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 10 months
tlarallyinteroperabilitystandardscockpit
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