Richard Klancer
Software Engineer at Google
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Klancer is a software engineer with 17 years of experience building data pipelines, backends, and interactive web visualizations, currently contributing at Google after a long tenure at Fitbit. He helped launch Fitbit's community feed and led a turnaround of the internal analytics publishing team, demonstrating both product-facing and data-infrastructure impact. Earlier work blends computational biology and education technology—developing genetics-related tools and interactive web simulations at the Concord Consortium funded by Google.org. Richard pairs research instincts (PhD work in biomedical engineering) with practical engineering, comfortable moving from analytics systems to front-end visualization. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines deep domain variety with a track record of shipping production features at scale. Colleagues would describe him as a versatile engineer who turns complex data needs into usable, observable systems.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Rutgers University-New BrunswickData Science Specialization, Data Science Specialization at Johns Hopkins University (on Coursera)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
html10
visualizations10
zipkin9
redis9
java9
memcached9
rpc8
finagle8
http8
scala8
lms8
fault-tolerant8
mysql8
thrift8
xapi7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
concord-consortium/lab.md-analysis
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:115 commits in 2 months
concord-consortium/gridflow
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:93 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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