Richard Halkyard
Software Engineer at Cray Inc.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Halkyard is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building and supporting complex computing environments, currently contributing at Cray Inc. He combines deep hands-on system administration from his work at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute with practical scripting and data-migration skills honed in industry roles. Comfortable across Linux, Windows, and macOS, he has a long-standing interest in legacy hardware and retro computing—an owner-operator curiosity that informs pragmatic debugging and creative problem solving. Richard’s strong academic background in computer science (BS, 3.919 GPA) complements his customer-facing and operational experience, enabling him to translate technical problems into usable processes and documentation. Quick to learn and communicate, he’s equally at home optimizing infrastructure or rescuing an aging Macintosh, bringing varied technical fluency and an engineer’s persistence to every challenge.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.919, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.919 at University of MinnesotaHigh School, English, Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, Electronics, Business Studies, High School, English, Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, Electronics, Business Studies at Long Bay CollegeBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Massey UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Kungsholmens Gymnasium
Github Skills (86)
650210
commodore10
c-compiler10
sdcc10
c6410
8-bit10
retrocomputing10
linux9
virtualization9
vagrant9
minecraft9
gcc9
ruby9
65109
fabric9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rhalkyard/SEthernet
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
rhalkyard/cc65
May 2019 - Jan 2022
cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems —
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
sdccfreewarecc65retrocomputingcompiler
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