Richard Marscher
Staff Software Engineer at HubSpot
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Marscher is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building high-performance, reliable backend systems at scale. At HubSpot he focuses on backend performance and reliability—driving logging cost reductions, HBase QoS, automated JFR-to-flamegraph tooling, and cross-company reliability practices—after earlier scaling work on Localytics’ push messaging platform that improved tail and median latency dramatically while slashing server costs. He blends deep JVM/Scala backend expertise with pragmatic operational tooling and performance-driven engineering, routinely turning profiling data into automated improvements. Known for measurable impact (e.g., large percentile performance gains and major cost savings), he prefers technical problem-solving over recruiter outreach.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (65)
hbase10
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
fallback10
perf10
r10
big-data10
sampling10
scale10
sql10
glibc10
data-processing10
database10
spark10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/failsafe
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Simple, sophisticated failure handling
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
handlingfailure-handling
rmarsch/shell-scripts
Feb 2016 - Dec 2021
Collection of useful scripts
Contributions:14 PRs, 7 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 11 months
scriptbashuseful-scriptsshell
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