Rick Wargo
Architect at Green Bridge Corporation
Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRick Wargo is an architect and hands-on technology executive with 25+ years of experience building data, analytics, and full-stack software solutions across healthcare, legal, and energy sectors. He combines deep expertise in data warehousing, BI, and information security with practical engineering skills in Python, Node.js, Ruby, SQL and system architecture to deliver process-optimized, sustainable systems. Rick has led teams and run organizations—from startup CTO roles to VP and director positions—while still contributing code and open-source fixes, including SSML improvements for a popular Alexa framework. Currently architecting control systems that integrate EV charging, solar, and utility power, he uniquely bridges operational energy controls with cloud-native analytics. Known for translating technical complexity into clear business value, he is also active in community knowledge-sharing through the Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Drexel UniversityCSM, CSM at Certified Scrum Master Training
English
Stackoverflow
86reputation
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Github Skills (12)
ssml10
alex10
javascript10
nodejs10
lex10
testing9
heroku6
thread-local-storage6
rabbitmq6
celery6
eventlet6
django6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexa-js/alexa-app
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
A framework for Alexa (Amazon Echo) apps using Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the project by adding and refining functionality related to Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) support within the Alexa framework. They implemented features for generating SSML responses, cleansing SSML for card content, and appending to existing SSML strings. Furthermore, they addressed a bug by ensuring handlers correctly called the context.fail() function on error. The user also removed dependencies and added tests for the to-ssml.js module.
alexa-skills-kitamazon-echonode-jsjavascriptamazon
rickwargo/number_cruncher
Sep 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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