Richard Kiene
Senior Software Engineer at Liquescent Development
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Kiene is a senior software engineer and pragmatic leader with 11 years of experience building telemetry, cloud, and manufacturing systems for organizations from startups to automakers. He blends hands-on problem solving with business-focused decision making—designing metrics-driven strategies and SLIs that have delivered 100% SLO coverage and measurable operational improvements. Richard has led cross-functional teams at Rivian, Joyent, and Samsung, architecting scalable observability and factory software while coaching engineers to unlock underutilized talent. A founder and repeat technical lead, he excels at translating executive priorities into cost-effective engineering roadmaps and has a knack for reviving stalled, high-impact projects. Based in Phoenix, he favors data-backed choices and rapid hands-on intervention, often being the go-to engineer for the toughest production incidents.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (188)
prometheus-exporter10
cloud-object-storage10
k8s10
monitoring10
graphing10
database10
kubernetes10
storage10
prometheus10
name-service10
nodes10
time-series10
docker-engine10
system-monitoring10
amazon-s310
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/node-sdc-changefeed
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
richardkiene/trollbot
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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