Richard Wai
Team Lead, Software Engineering at Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Wai is a team lead and founder with 8 years of experience building high-integrity, large-scale and safety-critical software systems across space, automotive, and cloud domains. He leads engineering at Rakuten Kobo and has driven core flight software for Canadarm3 and autonomous driving systems at MDA and General Motors, bringing deep expertise in real-time scheduling, fault tolerance, and heterogeneous architectures. As founder and Managing Director of ANNEXI-STRAYLINE he advocates for Ada and produces open-source components to make dependable, maintainable software practical for mainstream and cloud-native use. A long-time voting member of the Ada language working group, he combines hands-on low-level design (embedded OSes, custom binary formats, PCB design) with team leadership and standards development. Notably, his background in architecture informs a systems-first approach to engineering that balances rigorous process with pragmatic delivery.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Honours BA Architecture, Honours BA Architecture at University of Toronto
Github Skills (20)
youtube-dl10
ffmpeg10
youtube10
free-tools10
cli10
self-contained9
ada8
gnat7
aem6
spark-ada6
spark5
emr4
database-design4
compiler4
database3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Richard-Wai/freebsd
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror)
Contributions:64 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 6 months
bsdfreebsdjailsrcbengali
annexi-strayline/Curses
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 47 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
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