Stefan Richter
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Richter is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years building planet-scale, cost-conscious infrastructure and platform software across Telecommunications, Finance, Social Media, Entertainment and Networking. He blends hands-on systems engineering with team and product leadership, having led critical projects at AWS to migrate global backbone networking to commodity hardware and founded Chkk to automate lifecycle management for complex cloud-native stacks. Stefan excels at designing reliable, secure control planes and durable workflows that safely combine human and AI agents, reducing weeks of operational work to days for enterprises. Based in Seattle with an M.Sc. from the Hasso Plattner Institute, he pairs deep kernel-to-cloud technical depth with a knack for simplifying operational pain—his background even spans mobile bugfix and refactoring work, showing pragmatic breadth beyond core infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany
Github Skills (3)
java10
javas10
android10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
abarisain/dmix
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
A modern MPD Client for Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on bug fixes and refactoring code related to the MPD client for Android. Their contributions include fixing style and typo issues, and also refactoring the code base. Additionally, they updated several files by making fixes.
mpd-clientandroidmpdkotlinjava
02strich/python-pandora
Jun 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:32 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 5 months
python-librarypythonpython3pandora
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