Richard Laughlin
Software Engineer at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Laughlin is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient data and infrastructure systems in finance, defense research, and cloud-scale environments. He leverages Scala, Python, and C++ to design ETL pipelines, Spark workloads, and Kubernetes-based deployments, having shipped production risk-reporting systems at JPMorgan and security-hardened clusters for DoD research at Carnegie Mellon. Now at Google, he brings a strong DevSecOps and automation background—terraform, Ansible, and CI practices—paired with hands-on cluster administration and migration experience. Richard’s RIT software engineering degree and history of open-source projects reflect a pragmatic technologist who frequently bridges legacy systems and modern platforms. An un-obvious strength is his track record of operationalizing security benchmarks (CIS) into automated, verifiable deployments, making systems both auditable and production-ready.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (64)
kubernetes10
docker10
targz10
go10
server10
networking9
isomorphic9
security9
windows9
sml9
zlib9
installer9
openstack9
dom9
scheduling9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rcythr/archive
Jul 2014 - Jan 2018
An archive library that supports zip, tar, and targz written entirely in D (with underlying gz implementation from zlib).
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 6 months
gztargzzlib
rcythr/raytracer
Apr 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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