Rick Friele
Senior Software Engineer (SDE III, L6) at Amazon
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolRick Friele is a Senior Software Engineer (L6) based in Henderson, Nevada, with more than a decade building high-scale, distributed systems across regulated and consumer-facing domains. He currently drives backend and architecture work at Amazon after progressing through senior engineering roles at Zappos, where he led modernization of financial data pipelines and designed fault-tolerant S3/SQS solutions for critical reporting. Rick’s background includes revamping legacy betting platforms at CG Technology—delivering account-based systems, real-time data ingestion, and compliance-focused observability—showing he thrives where reliability and regulation intersect. Comfortable across Java, Spring, REST APIs and cloud-native patterns, he blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership to turn complex business requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. A pragmatic problem solver, he often tackles thorny integration and operational challenges that reduce human toil and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Github Skills (4)
monitor10
sensor7
ios3
swift1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rickfriele/Dxtr
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:28 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
dexcomios-appsensoriossensor-data
rickfriele/loopdocs
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Loop Docs - https://loopdocs.org/
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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