Rick Otten
Principal Software Engineer at Various
New Albany, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRick Otten is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting scalable data platforms across startups, enterprise, and government. He specializes in high-concurrency real-time systems, interactive data visualization, and numerical/statistical analysis, working with PostgreSQL, MaterializeDB, Redshift, Kafka, and modern cloud stacks. As a founding engineer and technical leader he has built secure, high-performance AI/NLP tools and led engineering organizations through rapid growth, hiring, and process maturation. His background in Unix/Solaris systems engineering and deep familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL ecosystems enables pragmatic infrastructure and cost-optimization decisions. He also coaches and develops aspiring engineers, translating complex mathematical analysis into actionable production systems. Based in New Albany, Ohio, Rick blends low-level systems expertise with data engineering and product-focused architecture to tame very large, rapidly changing datasets.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at U. MaineNaval Academy Prep SchoolUniversity of IdahoUMass LowellUniversity of Rochester
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
automation10
serverless10
scheduler10
neo4j10
api10
vte10
json10
data-science10
apache10
sql-database10
streaming-data10
visualization10
python10
windows10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rotten/rethinkdb-multicorn-postgresql-fdw
Dec 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
rethinkdbdatabasepostgresforeignpostgresql
rotten/hue-multicorn-postgresql-fdw
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 6 pushes in 4 months
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