Rick Pianka
Chief Technology Officer at Formulary Financial
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolRick Pianka is a seasoned technology generalist and security-focused leader with 11+ years of experience progressing from software engineer to CTO. Currently Chief Technology Officer at Formulary Financial, he blends hands-on engineering instincts with executive-level strategy informed by prior roles as Senior Security Engineer at Meta and CISO at both Nimbio and Principles. He has a strong track record of building and securing production systems across finance and enterprise environments, guiding teams through architecture, risk reduction, and incident readiness. Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, Rick pairs a computer science and game development background from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a pragmatic engineering approach. Not obvious from titles alone, he frequently moves between deep technical contribution and organizational security governance, making him equally comfortable writing code or defining company-wide security posture.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
chat8
bot-application7
chatbot6
google-cloud-run6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pianka-io/WarChat
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A warnet chat bot application
Contributions:154 commits in 2 months
bot-applicationbotchatchat-botchatbot
richardpianka/animals
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
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