Richard Giliam
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Giliam is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a deep history of low-level systems work that began with installing Slackware from floppies and writing x86 assembly for graphics demos. He has led architecture and technical teams at AWS, IBM, and HPE, building production services in Go, Python, Scala and C/C++ across cloud, networking, and ML-driven performance analytics. Comfortable from kernel-space packet capture agents to distributed telemetry stacks (Kafka, Consul, Vault, Nomad), he blends hands-on development with architectural leadership and security-minded design. Richard’s curiosity-driven approach has produced practical tooling—like a Pocket PC packet driver and libpcap-compatible library—and drives him to explore heterogeneous compute (GPGPU/FPGA) and machine learning integrations. Based in Seattle, he is most productive tackling unfamiliar problems and turning nagging technical questions into robust, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (49)
parser10
serializer10
mws10
cache-control10
amazon-ion10
amazon10
java9
streaming9
rust8
hash8
python8
api8
idp8
writers8
infiniband8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nirosys/stitch
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 9 pushes in 6 months
nirosys/ion-c
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
A C implementation of Amazon Ion.
Contributions:8 PRs, 76 pushes, 102 branches in 2 years 8 months
amazon-ionamazonion
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