Rudy Richter
Staff Software Developer at Rarebit, Inc.
Village of Fairport, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRudy Richter is a Staff Software Developer with 21 years of experience building macOS and iOS applications, currently engineering at 1Password after a long history of mac-focused roles. He has deep expertise in native Apple platforms, having worked on notable apps and tools like NetNewsWire, Kaleidoscope, Versions, Growl, and audio utilities such as Detour and SoundSource. Rudy contributes to prominent open-source projects including OpenEmu, where he implemented a dedicated HID manager and initial force feedback support for retro game emulation on macOS. His career spans both product companies and independent work through Rarebit, Inc., reflecting a blend of team leadership and sustained solo engineering. Based in Fairport, NY, he brings pragmatic system-level skills—Cocoa, Carbon, OpenGL—and a track record of porting and integrating features across device boundaries. Colleagues rely on him for solving platform-specific challenges and shipping reliable user-facing features.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Old Dominion University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
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macos10
iokit10
emulation9
sandbox6
avfoundation6
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cocoa6
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenEmu/OpenEmu
Dec 2010 - Jul 2017
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rudy's primary contribution involves the implementation and modification of the HID manager within the OpenEmu project. This work includes splitting the HID support from the GameDocumentController into a dedicated OEHIDManager. Further, the user added initial ForceFeedback support, including the ability to enable and disable it. Finally the user modified the view's behavior in full screen mode.
game-boyobjective-cemulatorretrovideo-game
shortcutrecorder/shortcutrecorder
Sep 2007 - Nov 2018
The official home for Shortcut Recorder on GitHub
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 years 3 months
shortcutrecorder
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