Richard Elberger
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Elberger is a Principal Software Engineer and technologist with 11+ years focused on IoT, edge compute, and embedded Linux, currently shaping AWS IoT strategy from New York. He has led developer advocacy and open-source initiatives that dramatically grew community engagement and automated maintenance for meta-aws, delivering CI/CD toolchains for embedded Linux on AWS. Richard blends hands-on embedded development with product and partner-facing roles, having driven technical go-to-market work with semiconductor vendors and built early integrations for Greengrass. He pairs broad release-engineering and operations experience from Microsoft and enterprise consulting with formal business training (MBA) and recent advanced CS study, enabling him to translate complex technical needs into scalable developer and customer outcomes. An open-source advocate and embedded systems evangelist, he quietly scales reproducibility and automation in developer tooling to reduce manual work by orders of magnitude.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityMBA Management and Finance, MBA Management and Finance at Isenberg School of Management, UMass AmherstBA Business Administration, BA Business Administration at University of PhoenixSix Sigma GB/BB, Six Sigma GB/BB at Villanova UniversityTacoma Community CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (163)
amazon-kinesis10
mojolicious10
websocket10
metadata10
perl10
yocto10
yocto-project10
aws-iot10
embedded10
linux10
software-update10
decouple10
refer10
direct-connect10
json10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws4embeddedlinux/meta-aws-ci
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 110 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 1 month
rpcme/File-Path
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 releases, 38 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year 11 months
rustfile-pathpath
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