Rick Hallihan
Principal Engineer at MarketOnce
Matthews, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRick Hallihan is a Principal Engineer with 25+ years of technical leadership across public and private sectors, now focused on product engineering, cloud architecture, AI, and big data. He has driven enterprise-grade solutions at Microsoft and Cloudera—working on Azure Databricks, enterprise reference architectures, and cloud migrations—while also contributing to well-known open-source tooling such as the Azure PowerShell HDInsight cmdlets. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and cross-functional leadership, Rick pairs deep debugging and systems experience (from embedded C to distributed data platforms) with product-minded design and supportability. He’s led v-teams, authored a consumer tech book, and serves as an on-call DRI for global services, reflecting a consistent focus on reliability at scale. Based in Matthews, NC, he combines an engineer’s attention to detail with an MBA-backed business perspective, often surfacing small API and CI/CD improvements that materially reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Maryland Global CampusB.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (20)
microsoft-azure10
azure-powershell10
hdp10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
hadoop9
testing9
json9
netframework9
amazon-web-services9
amazon-s39
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the HDInsight cmdlets, focusing on persisting configuration values and refactoring code for parameter preservation. This involved modifications across several files and implementing a copy constructor to prevent side effects, indicating a focus on improving the reliability and usability of the PowerShell module. The user also added unit tests to validate functionality, ensuring code quality. Furthermore, the user updated the project's dependencies to the latest SDK version.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
hallihan/about
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years
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