Rick Lund
Senior Software Engineer at Keysight Technologies
Santa Rosa, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Lund is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with decades of experience building everything from device drivers and embedded firmware to high-performance UI and signal analysis software. He leads development of spectrum analyzer products at Keysight, combining a hardware-software mixed background with a pragmatic focus on reliable, efficient code that works in the field. A self-described generalist, Rick excels at tight, real-time systems and has shipped complex, multi-continent projects and architectures while mentoring cross-functional teams. His roots tracing back to an Atari 800 inform a lifelong obsession with squeezing performance from limited hardware, and he recently poured that expertise into the UXA signal analyzer UX and analysis features. Holding BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering from UC Davis, he brings rare depth across low-level assembly, embedded systems, modern C++/C#, and graphics stacks.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of California at Davis
English, German
Github Skills (36)
climate-model10
kubernetes10
high-performance10
cray9
hpc9
pypy9
redfish8
version-control8
cli8
livecd8
cpython8
networking7
hpc-cluster7
rest7
dulwich7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Cray-HPE/vtds-base
Feb 2024 - Mar 2026
Base python utilities to support the vTDS system
Contributions:5 reviews, 41 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years
python
Cray-HPE/vtds-application-mock
Feb 2024 - Nov 2025
Mock application layer for the vTDS suite
Contributions:7 reviews, 14 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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