Richard Fliam
Chief Architect at MediaKind
Englewood, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Fliam is a Chief Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, highly reliable video systems from camera glass to consumer. He combines deep hands-on systems engineering (C/C++/Clojure) with product and business leadership, shaping strategy with executives and boards while managing multiple cross-functional teams. At MediaKind he owns end-to-end media system design; previously he built global streaming infrastructure, CI/CD and developer platforms at Comcast and solved hard distributed-consensus and cloud DVR problems used by tens of millions. He also contributes to open-source tooling for data integration, improving the MongoDB Connector for Hadoop to better handle indexing and exports, reflecting a practical interest in making complex systems more usable. Known for translating customer needs into operationally robust products, he pairs formal algorithmic thinking with pragmatic delivery to drive retention and market adoption.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Denver
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
hadoop10
mongodb10
java10
mongodb-database10
apache-pig9
database-management8
testing7
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-hadoop
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012
MongoDB Connector for Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the MongoDB Connector for Hadoop. Their contributions involved implementing features related to index management and updates, specifically allowing for the creation of indexes with various options like unique, sparse, and background. The user also addressed issues related to data export, ensuring compatibility with MongoDB's data structures. These changes suggest a focus on expanding the library's capabilities and usability.
hadoopconnectormongodb
Comcast/Canticle
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:117 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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