Richard Hendricks
CEO at Pied Piper
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Hendricks is a CEO and seasoned firmware and backend engineer with 12 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending leadership with hands-on systems work. He has deep practical expertise in debugging and improving complex generation systems—demonstrated by contributions to the GTNewHorizons/GT5-Unofficial mod where he fixed empty-chunk race conditions, implemented thread-safe ore generation, and added targeted debug tooling to improve world quality. Comfortable bridging product and low-level implementation, he pairs entrepreneurial responsibility with the patience to chase subtle concurrency and generation bugs. A space enthusiast and frequent firmware tinkerer, he brings curiosity-driven problem solving and a track record of shipping durable fixes in both embedded and large-codebase contexts.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
javas10
debug10
game-development10
multithreading10
java10
map-generation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GTNewHorizons/GT5-Unofficial
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Decompiled and modified version of GT5.07.07
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 31 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on debugging and enhancing the ore generation system within the game mod. They addressed an issue with empty chunks causing problems with ore generation, implementing thread-safe techniques to correct it. The user also added and improved debug messages, which assisted in identifying and tracking issues during ore vein generation, including messages to show a vein being generated in the air, and if an orevein failed to be chosen. Further work was done to improve the quality of the world generation, including configuration changes to adjust how often ore veins are generated.
decompiledmodifiedgt5
richardhendricks/GT5-Unofficial
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 10 branches, 9 tags in 2 years 6 months
decompiledmodifiedgt5
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