Ricky Barillas
Head Of Platform Engineering
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Barillas is a Head of Platform Engineering with a decade of experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently leading platform efforts at Massive and Polygon.io. A Georgia Tech CS graduate with strengths in systems, architecture, and networking, he has shipped production services using Go and Python on Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Postgres, and RabbitMQ. He progressed from backend engineer at Pindrop—where he instrumented distributed traces and integrated APM—to VP and head roles guiding platform reliability and developer productivity. An open-source contributor, he implemented a WebSocket client and REST integrations for the widely used polygon-io Python client, showing a knack for real-time data and API packaging. Colleagues know him as a technical leader who pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and operational rigor, and he brings an uncommon blend of systems-level thinking and product-focused execution. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he leverages both teaching experience and field leadership to scale teams and complex infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAlpharetta High School
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Github Skills (19)
apim10
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
websocket10
websockets-client10
rest-api10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
py9
api9
python-client9
trading8
go6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
polygon-io/client-python
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
The official Python client library for the Polygon REST and WebSocket API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 111 reviews, 51 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ricky's initial contributions involved the creation of a WebSocket client for the Polygon.io API, demonstrating an understanding of real-time data streams. They subsequently packaged the client for distribution, created an example usage scenario, and added basic package configuration files. Later commits included the addition of a REST client and the integration of swagger generated code, expanding the library's capabilities to include REST API access.
apipythonstock-pricesstocks-apiclient-library
jbonzo/dunder
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
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