Richard Yen
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolRichard Yen is a senior software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience stabilizing production systems, architecting cloud-native infrastructure, and scaling database-driven products across startups and PE-backed, pre-IPO companies. He has advanced through roles from developer and DBA to principal engineer and support lead, bringing a rare combination of deep PostgreSQL expertise, CI/CD and Terraform-driven automation, and incident-proven reliability practices. At EDB he unified build/release pipelines for Golang microservices and React frontends, designed serverless APIs on AWS, and created verification frameworks that materially reduced regressions. His open-source contributions include improvements to EnterpriseDB's widely used barman backup/recovery tool, reflecting practical, production-focused database engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous business needs into elegant technical roadmaps while mentoring teams to operate more confidently under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
python10
command-line-interface10
recovery10
backup10
command-line10
cli10
testing9
docker-compose9
docker9
sql9
disaster-recovery8
database-administration8
git7
pgadmin6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EnterpriseDB/barman
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the Barman project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to PostgreSQL backup and recovery. Their work involved modifying the command-line interface (CLI) to include new functionalities such as deleting failed backups and updating commands to plural forms for consistency. The user also improved the handling of target timelines during recovery, incorporating "current" and "latest" options. Furthermore, they addressed issues by refining code within the core logic and tests, ensuring the robustness and reliability of the backup process.
disaster-recoveryrecoverypostgrespostgresqlbackup
richyen/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:79 pushes in 9 years 4 months
sensiblewindowsosxlinuxos-x
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