Richard Rast
Distinguished Software Engineer at TriNetX
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Rast is a distinguished software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and analytics platforms for healthcare and biomedical data. Based in Cambridge, MA, he has driven 50–100x performance improvements, modernized infrastructure with Terraform, and reduced technical debt while scaling hundreds of ETL pipelines using Java, Python, and Rust. His work centers on robust business logic, data science and Real World Evidence pipelines, with a track record of bringing previously “untestable” features under test to cut defects and accelerate delivery. Holding a Ph.D. in mathematical logic and a B.S. in computer science, he combines formal analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering. An unspoken strength is his ability to simplify overlapping systems—reducing bug surface area and operational complexity—while keeping sensitive healthcare data protected and queryable.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics Computer Science at Dickinson CollegePh.D. Math (Logic), Ph.D. Math (Logic) at University of Maryland
English
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Github Skills (136)
testing10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
angular-testing-library10
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svelte-testing-library10
cypress10
component-testing10
async9
rust9
actix-web9
web-development9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rodya-mirov/deuterium
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:36 PRs, 36 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 10 months
rodya-mirov/Infinite-Tile-Engine-2D
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:53 commits in 6 months
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