Rick Drizin
Principal Software Engineer at Citrix
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRick Drizin is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and shipping backend systems across startups, large enterprises, and regulated industries. He specializes in the Microsoft stack (C#, .NET, SQL Server) and modern distributed architectures—microservices, Azure Service Fabric, Cosmos DB—and has led global, cross-functional teams from product startups to enterprise reinsurance. Rick combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, having built core systems, led DevOps and security initiatives, and presented to boards while managing engineering and operations. He founded successful side businesses, including a high-traffic Social TV Guide (1.3M monthly users) and a source-control migration tool used by Fortune 500s, showing product instincts and entrepreneurial grit. Bilingual and internationally experienced, he holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from USP and an MBA from FGV, and is a long-time U.S. resident bringing pragmatic, results-driven delivery to complex technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master (MBA) Business Management Marketing Finance, Master (MBA) Business Management Marketing Finance at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasHigh School, High School at Colégio BandeirantesB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloB.Sc. (Unconcluded) Engineering, B.Sc. (Unconcluded) Engineering at Escola Politécnica da USP
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (113)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Drizin/journey
Mar 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 years
golanghugoblog-engineghostghost-themes
Drizin/MultipleReturnValues
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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