Richard Lyle
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Lyle is a Principal Engineer with 32+ years in software development and over 22 years in game development, having shipped 15 commercial titles across consoles, PC, and mobile. He blends deep C++ expertise in high-performance systems—graphics, multithreading, networking, and GPU/assembly programming—with leadership experience as a founder, lead programmer, and VP of Engineering. At IBM Watson Innovation Labs he led the Intu middleware project embedding Watson into robots and spaces, and more recently has transitioned that systems-level AI experience into healthcare, building backend pipelines and LLM-enhanced clinical notes at Apricity Health. Comfortable across the stack, he architects scalable back-ends (including search, billing, and subscription systems) and builds polished front-end clients, while mentoring teams and driving agile delivery. Based in Austin, he’s self-taught in computer science and known for clean, well-documented code and a knack for turning research prototypes into production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Self-taught
English
Stackoverflow
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44kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (149)
ibm-cloud10
ibm-watson10
watson-assistant10
unity3d10
tactical10
watson10
mmo9
sdk9
azure-functions9
multiplayer9
aws9
react9
artificial-intelligence9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
palestar/gamecq
May 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
gamelobby-systemmulti-playerplayer-gamelobby
watson-intu/self
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Intu is a Cognitive Embodiment Middleware for AI on the edge.
Contributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 months
pytorchmiddlewarecognitiveedgeibm-research-ai
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