Rick Whitner
Senior Enterprise Architect at Leidos
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRick Whitner is a Senior Enterprise Architect with nine years in senior technical leadership and over two decades of experience modernizing large-scale network, monitoring, and blockchain systems. Currently leading a cross-functional effort at Leidos to modernize mission-critical government systems, he previously shaped architecture and product roadmaps as Chief Architect and senior engineering executive for blockchain-enabled platforms at Voice and Block.one. Rick blends deep systems-thinking from roles at Agilent, CA Technologies, and JDS Uniphase with hands-on cloud and multichain infrastructure delivery on GCP, consistently improving scale, performance, and operational resilience. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and has pursued advanced systems engineering studies, a background that informs his pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems. Not obvious from his title: he has moved between research, product, and executive roles, making him as comfortable driving strategic vision as rolling up his sleeves on architecture and implementation.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of Virginia - WiseMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Virginia TechSystems Engineering - PhD studies (no degree), Systems Engineering - PhD studies (no degree) at Colorado State UniversityEngineering - no degree, Engineering - no degree at United States Air Force Academy
Github Skills (7)
eosio10
blockchain-platform10
blockchain9
ethereum9
solidity9
smart-contracts9
contract9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
rwhitner/hello-world
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
dotfilesbash
EOSIO/eos
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
An open source smart contract platform
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
smart-contractblockchain-platformethereumcontractblockchain
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