Richard Torres
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Torres is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building data and ML infrastructure for teams at Netflix, Apple, and now Airbnb from the San Jose area. He began as a hands-on engineer—shipping web APIs, Python tooling, and scalable model-hosting services that reduced latency and enabled safe, zero-downtime ML deployments—and has grown into product-facing leadership roles that blend roadmap, process, and team coaching. At Netflix he connected non-technical consumers to data via platform tooling and a GraphQL data portal; at Apple he led data productivity platform efforts; and at Friendbuy he stepped in as interim Head of Product to formalize backlog and discovery practices. Known for improving deployment workflows and confidence in data quality, he brings a pragmatic mix of product sensibility and deep technical ownership. Colleagues would call him a builder who still enjoys tinkering under the hood—he originally learned computing trying to install video games—and who scales both systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
851reputation
38kreached
3answers
1question
flask
top-5%
Github Skills (32)
data-quality10
data-integrity10
exploratory-data-analysis10
eda10
pipeline10
data-profiling10
data-science9
data-validation9
dvc9
flask9
data-analysis8
python8
mlops8
github-api8
data-engineering8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RichJTorres/developer-resources
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
RichardJTorres/flask-starter
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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