Richard Faulkner
Senior Server Engineer II at Strava
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Faulkner is a Senior Server Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, cost-efficient backend systems, currently contributing at Strava. He specializes in Java, Spring, microservices, and event-driven architectures, and has driven language migration and Go adoption at Quizlet, including leading their first Go microservice. Richard has a track record of delivering measurable impact—rewriting services for 83x latency improvements and driving a projected $2M annual savings through OpenAI capacity planning and performance testing. He pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic implementation, improving throughput (up to 225x) and observability for critical data pipelines. With a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Colorado State and hands-on experience from startups to scale-ups, he’s comfortable spanning security, architecture, and operational reliability. Outside typical server work, he’s known for rapidly prototyping rewrites and surfacing non-obvious platform flaws that unlock major cost and performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Niwot High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Colorado State University
EnglishProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
riFaulkner/sports-kernel
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 reviews, 47 commits, 82 PRs in 4 years 1 month
riFaulkner/SunFounder_SensorKit_for_RPi2
Dec 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 3 months
raspberry-piraspberrysensorraspberrypiraspberry-pi-2
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