Rick Portin
Owner Executive Producer Director at Rick Portin Productions
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick Portin is an immersive media architect and executive producer with 11+ years formal experience and a multi-decade career creating hybrid television, interactive streaming and AI/AR-powered entertainment for clients including Microsoft/Xbox, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Valve, E! and The Hollywood Reporter. He blends studio-wide production leadership with hands-on design of interactive infrastructure—having led Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studio, built international TV studios, and produced large-scale esports and celebrity programming reaching millions. Rick is known for marrying cutting-edge tech (AI, AR/VR, multi-camera tracking) with audience-first content strategies, and has designed server/cloud workflows to coordinate cross-continental productions. Beyond producing, he’s served as a strategic consultant on production facilities, tooling and streaming operations, shaping how entertainment is created and delivered for brands and platforms. An uncommon strength is his track record of shipping both live broadcast spectacles and experimental interactive formats, making him fluent in the demands of broadcast, gaming, and digital distribution. Based in Bellevue, WA, he continues to lead Rick Portin Productions to prototype new forms of pop-culture entertainment.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
5,400reputation
171kreached
61answers
44questions
loops
top-5%
Github Skills (11)
loops9
recursion6
grammar6
prolog6
context-free-grammar6
algebraic-data-types6
combinator6
parsing6
regex6
compiler-construction6
haskell6
Github contributions (5)
dportin/linear
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
dportin/leetcode
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes in 6 days
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