Rick Kozak
Senior Principal Software Developer at OpenText
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Kozak is a senior principal software developer based in Guelph, Ontario, with deep expertise in mobile and embedded systems dating back to the early days of professional development. He specializes in Windows (Win32/.NET), Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Embedded Linux and Android platforms, with practical experience integrating barcode/RFID, GPS, TAPI, drivers, networking and web services. A longtime independent consultant and principal at RTBSoft, he pairs hands-on device-level coding with architecture and product delivery at OpenText, where he progressed from Principal Engineer to Senior Principal. He also brings an educator’s perspective from years teaching networking, web and native mobile technologies, helping translate complex systems into practical skills. Holding a Systems Design Engineering degree and an MBA, he combines technical breadth with business insight, and—consistent with a career that began in 1979—still writes production code today.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityB.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering, B.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
asp-net-core7
azure-sql7
azure-sql-server7
asp-net7
azure4
azure-synapse4
sql-server4
microsoft4
sql4
strings1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rtbsoft/csharpbook
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rtbsoft/simplestserver
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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