Richard Youngkin
Woodworker at Ski Every Day
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Youngkin is a veteran software engineer and systems architect with decades of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems, most recently leading the architecture and delivery of Comcast’s Cloud DVR microservices platform. He’s fluent in Go, Erlang, Java and C/C++, and has driven production deployments at scale—thousands of service instances, petabytes in S3, and fully automated CI/CD on Docker/Kubernetes—while practicing DevOps-driven operations. His background spans telecom and enterprise software at AT&T, Lucent/Avaya, Sybase, and Pearson, where he built resilient messaging and real-time systems that supported global events and education platforms. After a period of independent consulting he now applies the same craftsmanship to running Circle Y Wood Works, blending hands-on engineering rigor with a woodworker’s attention to detail. Notably, he pairs deep low-level systems knowledge with practical cloud-native experience, making him equally comfortable architecting core infra or stepping into implementation and operations.
12 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Business, Information Systems, B.S., Business, Information Systems at University of Colorado at BoulderM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Denver
Github Skills (82)
wiringpi10
avfoundation10
capability10
raspberry10
gpio10
expressjs9
hey9
pwm9
ada9
plug9
arduino9
raspberry-pi-gpio9
git-workflow9
swift8
rest-api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
youngkin/youngkin.github.io
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 60 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 8 months
youngkin/gpio
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 54 commits, 44 pushes in 8 months
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