Richard Jones
Principal Engineer - Program Tech Lead at Oddball
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Jones is a Principal Engineer and program tech lead with 14 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native systems and leading multi-team engineering efforts across AWS. He has driven large-scale government and enterprise projects—most notably a $43M VA Disability Benefits program—while growing engineering organizations, defining AI coding assistant policies, and formalizing hiring and mentorship processes. Technically deep and pragmatic, Richard re-architected AWS solutions to cut costs by half and double developer velocity, and contributed low-level fixes to the official MongoDB Node.js driver around ObjectID generation and endianness. He combines architecture, SRE, and developer tooling expertise (including custom Go CLIs, CUE-based templates, and CI/CD platforms) to make complex multi-account, multi-cluster deployments reliable and maintainable. Based in Colorado, he pairs a penchant for mentoring with a builder’s mindset—often authoring reusable IaC components and internal training curricula to elevate teams. Outside work he’s happiest in the Rocky Mountains with his family, a detail that grounds his leadership style in long-term perspective and resilience.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Network Switiching systems, Certificate Network Switiching systems at GTE Resident School US Army Signal CenterAssociates of Applied Science Digital Media, Associates of Applied Science Digital Media at Santa Fe Community CollegeEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Techstars Cloud
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Github contributions (5)
mongodb/node-mongodb-native
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
The official MongoDB Node.js driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on modifying the `objectid.js` and `objectid.cc` files within the `node-mongodb-native` repository, which is the official MongoDB Node.js driver. Their commits involved improvements to ObjectID generation, including handling Date instances and zeroing out bytes for time-based ObjectIDs. These changes also included fixes for big/little endian issues and refactoring to improve code syntax and efficiency.
nosqlnode-jsnode-mongodbnode-librarynodejs
talentedmrjones/Javascript-Canvas-Tools
Aug 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:44 commits in 2 months
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