Richard Royal
Principal Developer at Cox Media Group
Rome, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Royal is a Principal Developer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, serverless systems and user-facing applications for regional media at Cox Media Group. He specializes in AWS-driven architectures—Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3—and delivers real-time data and video workflows alongside polished front-end experiences. A Georgia native with a Physics degree from Berry College and Electrical Engineering studies at Georgia Tech, he blends rigorous problem-solving with practical engineering. Previously he led web and infrastructure work for B2B Ruby on Rails startups and ran WordPress consulting that produced plugins with over 100,000 aggregate downloads. Richard mentors junior engineers and champions DevOps practices, security-aware operations, and cost-effective scalability. He enjoys turning investigative, research-minded curiosity into complete, production-ready products and side projects.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Berry College
Github Skills (8)
orm10
python10
django10
django-framework9
web-framework6
player1
silent1
video-player1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richardroyal/SR-Simulade-Special-Relativity-Simulator
Jun 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 2 years 10 months
coxmediagroup/arc-video-center-ingest
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
Ingest videos into ARC Video Center via SFTP & S3 uploads
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
centersftpvideoss3-uploadsvideo
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