Richard Petti
Staff Data Engineer
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Petti is a Staff Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building data-driven systems across media, enterprise software, and scientific research. He blends a PhD in nuclear physics and hands-on data science training to tackle large-scale ingestion, modeling, and analytics challenges—moving projects from Monte Carlo simulations to production APIs. At SiriusXM and prior roles he has led backend and data platform work, applied ML for product personalization, and designed ontologies and Neo4j/SQL storage for performant retrieval. Comfortable from low-level C++ simulations to Python-based cloud services, he excels at translating complex technical problems into practical, productionized solutions. Known for rapid technology pickup and ownership, he also has a track record of communicating technical results to both technical peers and public audiences.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at The Data IncubatorBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics Mathematics at SUNY BrockportDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Nuclear Physics at Stony Brook UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RichInCode/personalFinanceTool
Jun 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
RichInCode/personal-website
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
My personal landing page
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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