Valdis Rigdon
Director, Software Development at Appian Corporation
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolValdis Rigdon is a seasoned software leader with 15+ years building and scaling engineering teams for public sector, government, and healthcare customers, currently serving as Director of Software Development at Appian. He combines hands-on architecture and full-stack development roots with a track record of shipping mission-critical systems—from Java-based clinical AIMS used across hospitals to large-scale J2EE public sector platforms. A pragmatic manager and mentor, he excels in agile environments, SDLC design, and improving team delivery through testing and automation. His career includes exits via acquisition and repeated promotions at Appian, reflecting both technical depth and operational impact. Based in Ithaca and Cornell-educated in Computer Science, he brings a blend of enterprise engineering rigor and a bias for solving complex, real-world problems.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Cornell University
English
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Github Skills (151)
testing10
gcp10
junit10
docker-container10
k8s10
integration-testing10
charts10
docker-compose10
kubernetes-deployment10
helm10
linode10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
selenium-webdriver10
kops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
valdisrigdon/openhab2-addons
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Add-ons for openHAB 2.x
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
add-onsopenhab2-xaddonons
appian/terraform-provider-gitlab
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Terraform GitLab provider
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
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