Richard Cordovano

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

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Richard Cordovano is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with over two decades of experience building complex systems across digital forensics, ballistic missile defense simulation, business management, and video games. He pairs an MS in Computer Science (4.00 GPA) and a BS with a minor in Applied Mathematics with hands-on expertise in C/C++, Java, Python, and C#, and deep familiarity with PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server and Oracle across Windows, Linux, macOS and UNIX. Richard has led engineering teams and architecture efforts at organizations from General Dynamics and Basis Technology to game studios and defense contractors, often serving as chief architect or director-level technical lead. His work emphasizes sound software architecture, object-oriented design, UML and proven design patterns applied to safety- and security-sensitive domains. Notably, he blends rigorous academic pedigree with practical delivery—moving between research-grade simulation and productionized forensics tooling—bringing both systems-level thinking and product-focused execution. Based in Quincy, Massachusetts, he is a pragmatic leader who scales teams and codebases while retaining a developer’s attention to detail.

14 years of coding experience

14 years of employment as a software developer

MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Colorado Technical University

BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Github Skills (25)

filesystem10

autopsy10

enforcement10

recover10

military10

java10

64-bit10

camera10

ntfs10

command-line10

command-line-tool10

incident-response10

lstm8

tesseract8

visual-studio8

Programming languages (3)

JavaC++C

Github contributions (5)

rcordovano/autopsy

Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

The Autopsy Forensic Browser is a graphical interface to the command line digital forensics tools in The Sleuth Kit. Together, they allow you to investigate the file system and volumes of a computer.

Contributions:33 commits, 950 pushes, 714 branches in 6 months

command-linefilesystem

rcordovano/sleuthkit

Mar 2015 - Dec 2021

The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.

Contributions:223 pushes, 162 branches in 6 years 10 months

command-line-toolsvolumeforensicsdigital-forensicsinvestigate

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