Richard Goldman
Staff Backend Engineer at Existence
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Goldman is a Staff Backend Engineer based in San Diego with over a decade of experience and a 20+ year background as a full‑stack web engineer, having led front‑end and platform work for high‑traffic properties like StarWars.com, Disney.com, TheRealReal, and Second Life. He blends modern backend and data engineering skills—Node, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery/Bigtable, Airflow and cloud platforms—with a strong front‑end sensibility (React/Vue, D3/Highcharts) that helps turn complex data into usable interfaces. Recently focused on API development, AI integrations, and production data pipelines, he’s comfortable shipping systems that serve tens of millions of users and experimenting with OpenAI APIs. A proponent of web standards and Agile best practices, he also mentors engineers and draws on a rare humanities background (MFA coursework in fiction writing) to communicate complex technical ideas clearly.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MFA (coursework completed) Fiction Writing, MFA (coursework completed) Fiction Writing at Boston University
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Github Skills (123)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thujone/stupid-hard-trivia
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A stupid-hard Seinfeld trivia game, with Easy, Intermediate, and Stupid-Hard modes; timer bonus; 6 options per question; and leaderboards. 400 questions in all. Save-able and resumable. Share scores on Facebook and Twitter. Built using Next.js, json-server, React Hooks, Node, Mongo, and GraphQL..
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 3 years 6 months
next-jsreact-hooksscoresmodesreactjs
thujone/work-samples
Jun 2019 - Mar 2024
Some recent code samples (React, Redux, .NET Core, C#, Entity Framework, PostGreSQL)
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
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