Riley Patterson
Software Engineer at Harmonic
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Patterson is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11 years building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and major engineering teams. He co-founded and led backend architecture for a privacy-focused group chat product at Wavelength, shipping end-to-end encryption, Rust/Go services, and AI bot integrations, and earlier led engineering at Telepath to grow the product and its infrastructure from prototype to public launch. At Quora he spent five years evolving platform frameworks, deployment tooling, and large rearchitectures, rising to staff engineer and engineering manager. More recently he’s focused on systems and infrastructure for reinforcement-learning-driven math models at Harmonic, productionizing research and scaling clusters. Riley combines hands-on low-level work (C encryption libraries, distributed caches) with product-facing design and team leadership, often bridging research, backend reliability, and client integrations. Based in Austin, he brings an unusual mix of cryptography, large-scale distributed systems, and ML-infrastructure experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
11reputation
242reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (49)
pickle9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
object-graph8
rocket8
tensorflow8
modular7
data-science7
sanic7
json7
neural-network7
client-library7
web-development7
rust7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
telepath-inc/redis-fast-set-ops
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rylz/college-football
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:73 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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