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)

autopsy10

enforcement10

recover10

military10

java10

64-bit10

camera10

ntfs10

bit10

incident-response10

pong9

lstm8

tesseract8

ocr7

c996

Programming languages (3)

JavaC++C

Github contributions (5)

sleuthkit/libvhdi_64bit

Jan 2016 - Aug 2020

64-bit / VS 2015 version of libvhdi (https://github.com/libyal/libvhdi)

Contributions:4 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 7 months

64-bitbit

sleuthkit/sleuthkit

May 2012 - 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:207 reviews, 2127 commits, 1448 PRs in 9 years 8 months

sleuthincident-responsentfscommand-line-toolsforensics

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