Richard Shen
Software Engineer, Agents at Sierra
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Shen is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading teams across startups and large tech firms in social media, advertising, finance, and healthcare. He has driven ad product platforms and critical tracking systems at GIPHY and served as a technical lead at Meta, combining hands-on backend expertise with cross-team leadership. Passionate about performance, databases, and mentoring, he focuses on delivering reliable, scalable systems and enabling product teams to move faster with confidence. After a deep-dive sabbatical at Recurse Center exploring database internals, transformers, and distributed systems, he now contributes to web3 platform infrastructure at Alchemy. His background in applied mathematics and an early training in piano performance reflect a blend of analytical rigor and disciplined creativity that informs his engineering approach. Based in New York, he emphasizes measurable performance gains and developer enablement as hallmarks of his work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics at New York UniversityPiano Performance, Piano Performance at The Juilliard SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering, Minors in Mathematics and Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering, Minors in Mathematics and Psychology at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (12)
django7
midi6
recover6
memory-leaks6
iphone6
kill-process6
forwarding6
music5
synthesizer5
cms5
audio5
visualization4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Souloist/audio-effects
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Souloist/dotfiles
May 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
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