Richard Chiang is an operations-focused technology leader and COO with over 10 years in executive management and more than three decades in telecommunications and product roles across AT&T and related businesses. He blends financial planning and operational rigor with hands-on technical roots from an MS in Computer Science and early engineering work at Bell Labs, enabling pragmatic decisions at the intersection of product, pricing, and network services. Richard has a track record launching and commercializing mobility and wholesale offerings, plus experience reviving and hardening open-source tooling—contributing tests and stability fixes to the Emacs Jupyter client to support reproducible developer workflows. Based in Pennsylvania, he fields contract programming inquiries and combines strategic oversight with a willingness to dive into code and testing when it matters.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Architecture, BS, Architecture at National Cheng Kung University
High School
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Contributions:1 release, 129 commits, 119 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to testing and improving the Emacs IPython Notebook (EIN) project, which allows users to interact with Jupyter notebooks inside Emacs. The user revived and improved existing tests, focusing on unit and integration tests related to notebook functionalities like cell type toggling and JSON conversion. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the project's dependencies and asynchronous server communications, ensuring the project's stability and performance.
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
gnu-emacsorg-modespacemacsshieldsmagit
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