Rick Ducott
Director Of Engineering, Software at Gecko Robotics, Inc.
Milton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRick Ducott is a hands-on engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure, now directing software engineering at Gecko Robotics. He has repeatedly grown teams from small startups to organizations of 15–50+ engineers, hiring and mentoring leaders while shipping open source and commercial products for Kubernetes, service mesh, and large-scale data platforms. His background at Palantir includes designing consensus and synchronization protocols for multi-backend analytics and reducing critical reindex times from days to minutes, reflecting deep expertise in distributed storage and data consistency. Comfortable both closing enterprise customers and rolling up his sleeves in code, he blends product-minded leadership with technical depth. Based in Milton, MA, he brings a track record of operational resilience—having supported deployments in high-security and extreme environments—that informs pragmatic, impact-focused engineering decisions.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (78)
api-management10
security10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
mesh10
api10
proxies10
vault10
golang10
grpc10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
gateway10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
solo-io/valet-config
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
rickducott/testrepo
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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