Ricky Chien is a structural engineer with 11 years of engineering experience, combining a BS from UT San Antonio and ongoing MS studies in Structural Engineering at the University of Houston. He has progressed from intern and graduate roles into project and design lead positions, now working at Ensight Haynes Whaley where he tackles traditional structures as well as telecom, bridge, offshore, foundation, seismic, and forensic projects. Comfortable in both design and construction support, Ricky mentors junior engineers, serves as client contact, and routinely handles RFIs, submittal reviews, and site coordination. He also brings build-and-release automation experience from open-source work on Mozilla’s Gaia project, showing an ability to improve tooling and maintain complex software-build systems that complement his engineering workflow. Known for bridging hands-on laboratory research with practical field solutions, he blends academic rigor and site-savvy judgment to deliver resilient, code-compliant designs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Civil Engineering, Master of Science - MS Civil Engineering at University of Houston
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Contributions:86 commits, 198 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricky's contributions primarily revolve around modifying build scripts and configuration files within the Gaia project. Their work involves reverting changes related to build processes, including fixing TOOLTOOL_DIR paths and adjusting the build configurations for applications. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and refining the build system, ensuring that the project can be built and deployed successfully. The user also made modifications to test integration and settings files.
Truly lightweight and anonymous P2P WebRTC voice call
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 month
webrtc-signalingvoice-callp2pjanus-gatewaywebrtc
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Ricky Chien - Structural Engineer at Ensight Haynes Whaley, LLC