Richard Zschech
Lead Engineer Architect at WorldQuant LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Zschech is a Lead Engineer and Architect with roughly two decades of experience building high-performance, business-focused software across finance, telecoms, social networking, defence and content management. He has led and grown engineering teams from scratch, architected low-latency, high-throughput systems and re-architected large platforms to cut complexity, cost and operational overhead while improving scalability and reliability. Comfortable across the full SDLC, he blends hands-on implementation—Python, Java, HTML5/SPAs, REST APIs and systems integration—with strong practices in automated testing, code review and security. Notable achievements include designing WorldQuant BRAIN’s platform and APIs, delivering award-winning trading UIs and a $1M infrastructure saving via nginx clustering. He mentors engineers, hires and structures teams, and balances pragmatism with idealism to turn complex requirements into maintainable solutions. Based in New York with an Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide, he also has a history of initiating open source projects that extend his commercial work.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (Honours), Computer Science, Computer Science (Honours), Computer Science at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (65)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
http10
consul10
log4j10
kong10
serverless10
web-development10
microservices10
cloud-native10
native-api10
javascript10
logback10
directives10
api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rzschech/gwt-comet
Aug 2009 - Aug 2013
Contributions:118 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 4 years
rzschech/gwt-java-math
Sep 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 9 months
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