Summary
Richie Bielak is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of recent experience and a multi-decade career building core systems for finance and developer tools. He has deep proficiency in Java and Python, familiarity with Go and JavaScript, and a history of shipping high-reliability infrastructure—from FIX monitoring and post-trade processing to cloud developer tooling at Google. Richie currently leads a small team focused on authorization and contributes to open-source projects such as rules_oci, blending enterprise-grade engineering with community-facing work. His background spans low-level telecom and financial engineering languages (Modula-2, Eiffel, C++) through modern cloud-native stacks, giving him a rare breadth across eras of software. Based in Matawan, NJ, he pairs practical leadership with a taste for interesting, challenging problems—whether that's aircraft, guitars, or elegant code.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at New York University
BS, Mathematics/Computer Science, BS, Mathematics/Computer Science at Brooklyn College
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