Tony Rizko
Data Engineer Consultant
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolTony Rizko is a Staff Data and Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data and backend systems, from greenfield startups to high-traffic consumer services. He builds reliable, developer-friendly platforms using Kubernetes, Kafka/Kinesis, Airflow, Terraform and BigQuery, and has a track record of owning systems end-to-end—from authentication and database design to query load balancing and streaming pipelines. At Pura he created an internal MCP server powering an AI-driven analytics chatbot, and at Bird he improved Presto cluster stability by routing queries based on metadata to reduce latency. He excels at standardizing data modeling and pipeline patterns to make complex infrastructure maintainable by small teams. Based in Redlands, CA, he focuses on platform features that empower engineers through self-service tooling and intelligent interfaces layered on top of data.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at UC Irvine, Extension
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (138)
expressjs10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
backbone10
p2p10
mongoose10
mongo-express10
byte10
staging10
bitcoin10
curve10
cryptography10
elliptic-curve-cryptography9
stack9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
trizko/langbud
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:161 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
trizko/devbox
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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