Richard Kallos
Senior Developer at MarketOps
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Kallos is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and a deep affinity for functional programming and UNIX/Linux environments. Currently at MarketOps as an Elixir developer, he previously scaled real-time bidding infrastructure at Samsung Ads (>1M QPS) and worked on Erlang systems at Grindr. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed core issues and enhanced collections and TCP handling in the Pony language implementation, demonstrating low-level systems insight across actor-model runtimes. His academic background includes a Master of Applied Computer Science from Concordia, and he brings practical automation experience from earlier roles where he used Clojure to streamline workflows. Outside of code, Richard’s interests in classical music and musical theater reflect a disciplined, creative mindset that informs his engineering craft.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Applied Computer Science, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityDEC in Pure and Applied Sciences, Pure and Applied Sciences, DEC in Pure and Applied Sciences, Pure and Applied Sciences at Dawson College
English, French
Github Skills (7)
programming-language10
pony10
ponylang10
actor-model10
data-structure9
data-structures9
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ponylang/ponyc
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the Pony programming language project by addressing bugs and implementing improvements. They fixed issues related to path handling in the file system, exposed a method in TCP connection, and made changes to the collections library, specifically focusing on map insertion functions. Furthermore, the user added and removed features related to the collections library.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
rkallos/erl-filewatch
Jan 2017 - Sep 2023
Simple file watching for Erlang
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 47 pushes in 6 years 9 months
erlang
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