Richard Tia
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test at Together AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Tia is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with 13 years of experience building and leading test engineering efforts across enterprise search, data platforms, and distributed systems. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed from systems and QA internships to senior SDET and staff engineering roles at Splunk, Voltron Data (as the first SDET), and now Together AI, blending deep automation skills with system-level understanding. He has a strong background in improving verification frameworks and test automation at scale, and has repeatedly stepped into early SDET/lead roles to shape quality strategy for growing teams. Trained in computer engineering at Boston University, Richard pairs pragmatism with a penchant for tooling and process improvements that reduce manual toil and increase delivery confidence.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, teo chew
Github Skills (26)
expressions10
data-management10
specification10
parquet10
python-bindings10
relational-algebra10
database10
analytics9
dataframe9
sql9
apache-arrow9
sql-database9
embedded-database9
cpp9
duckdb9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
richtia/substrait
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
A cross platform way to express data transformation, relational algebra, standardized record expression and plans.
Contributions:216 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 8 months
transformationplansrelationaldatabase-designdsl
richtia/consumer-testing
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:274 pushes, 43 branches in 2 years 3 months
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