Richard Navarrete
Software Engineering Leader at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Navarrete is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, AI/ML, and privacy-focused platforms across startups and hyperscalers. He has repeatedly grown engineering organizations (from dozens to 90+) while driving product-led revenue growth, rapid legacy-to-AI migrations, and measurable cost reductions on cloud platforms. At Google he led privacy/security controls and delivered an AI-first Case Management platform in 3.5 months; earlier roles include VP engineering and CTO wins like 20x growth at TeleVet and a 30% revenue lift at sticky.io. Richard combines hands-on engineering instincts (APIs, Kubernetes, CI/CD) with executive cadence—negotiating hosting deals, securing strategic partnerships, and training new managers globally. Based in Sunnyvale, he’s known for turning complex compliance and integration challenges into practical, scalable solutions that accelerate market adoption.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Happy High SchoolExecutive Leadership Development, Executive Leadership Development at The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of BusinessBA, Computer Information Systems, BA, Computer Information Systems at West Texas A&M University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
face10
search-engine10
openpose10
pose10
java10
machine-vision10
elasticsearch10
keypoint9
opensearch9
caffe9
human-pose-estimation9
pose-estimation9
turbo9
active-directory9
restful9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
richardun/active_directory
Apr 2012 - Jun 2014
Native Ruby Access to Microsoft Active Directory
Contributions:7 commits in 2 years 2 months
windows-serverrailsactivedirectoryrubydirectory
richardun/videojs_rails
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 days
pipelinerailsrubyassetvideo
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