Rick Jensen
Senior Software Engineer at Shopbop | East Dane
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRick Jensen is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years' experience building scalable, accessible full-stack web applications and developer-focused tooling from Madison, WI. He blends deep systems design—especially large-scale data modeling, distributed graph algorithms, and NoSQL datastores—with a strong emphasis on security, accessibility, and automation to improve developer efficiency. As senior tech lead at Yahoo he co-created and open-sourced Fili, a high-performance RESTful analytics engine benchmarked at 10k RPS, and now drives production systems at Shopbop/East Dane. Rick is polyglot-minded (Groovy, Clojure, TypeScript, Java) and has a track record of shepherding teams, instituting CI/CD and usable specs, and turning failing projects into timely, reliable deliveries. He pairs hands-on implementation and rigorous code review with mentorship and teaching, making complex analytics platforms both performant and approachable.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Redwing Technical CollegeChippewa Falls Senior High SchoolUniversity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
English, Spanish, French, German
Stackoverflow
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spring
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grails
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Github Skills (200)
databases10
json-objects10
grails-plugin10
rest10
sql10
druid10
analytics10
gradle10
kotlin10
restful-api10
time-series10
webservice10
restful10
big-data-analytics10
javascript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cdeszaq-org/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
cdeszaq/homeServer
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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