● Experience with legacy, greenfield, and production project development and maintenance ● Outstanding analysis, design, coding, and architecture skills - AI-assisted ● Mentor skills and experience, and welcomes learning and new ideas ● Creates, maintains, and reviews designs, code changes, user guides, internal documentation and wikis, white papers, and technical articles ● Dependable voice of reason amid euphoria or panic

Richard Haven

● Experience with legacy, greenfield, and production project development and maintenance ● Outstanding analysis, design, coding, and architecture skills - AI-assisted ● Mentor skills and experience, and welcomes learning and new ideas ● Creates, maintains, and reviews designs, code changes, user guides, internal documentation and wikis, white papers, and technical articles ● Dependable voice of reason amid euphoria or panic

Available to hire

● Experience with legacy, greenfield, and production project development and maintenance
● Outstanding analysis, design, coding, and architecture skills - AI-assisted
● Mentor skills and experience, and welcomes learning and new ideas
● Creates, maintains, and reviews designs, code changes, user guides, internal
documentation and wikis, white papers, and technical articles
● Dependable voice of reason amid euphoria or panic

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Language

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Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at FLYR Labs
May 1, 2022 - Present
Created two versions of a highly responsive API (25ms P90) serving commercial airlines' booking and ticketing systems; implemented ML data pipelines and customer configuration APIs using Postgres, Redis, and BigQuery data flows; monitored all services with DataDog and multi-service transaction tracing.
Senior Software Engineer at Alto Pharmacy
February 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022
Created a green-field Python API hosted on AWS for the new generation of identity-enhancement products; focused on resilience, code maintainability, quality, and internal engineering growth and support.
Senior Software Engineer at Alto Pharmacy
June 1, 2020 - October 1, 2020
Supply chain team scaled operations; interfaced with fulfillment hardware systems (e.g., Parata); maintained internal documentation; set development standards and protocols.
Senior Software Engineer at Virta Health
October 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020
Infrastructure team migration from Ansible (AWS) to Google Health API (FHIR), BigQuery, and Cloud Storage; improved cross-team communication between engineering, product, and design; initiated internal Python Guild for programming discussions.
Principal Software Engineer at Grand Rounds
August 1, 2017 - September 1, 2018
Led API enhancements and mentoring across departments; introduced GraphQL interface to core APIs.
Principal Software Engineer
May 1, 2013 - August 1, 2017
Led infrastructure and platform improvements; migration to Google Cloud components; mentored developers and contributed to agile processes across teams.
Senior Software Engineer at Telesign
February 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022
Created two versions of a highly responsive API (25ms P90) serving commercial airlines' booking and ticketing systems (Offer and Order), caching and updating customer configuration information from PostgreSQL, pricing data from other APIs, and pulling ML data from Redis per request. Also created the customer configuration management APIs that interact with PostgreSQL, and the ETL that loads ML data from BigQuery to Redis. All monitored by extensive DataDog metrics and profile information, including multi-service transactions.
Senior Software Engineer at FLYR Labs
May 1, 2022 - December 1, 2025
Created two versions of a highly resilient green-field Python API hosted on AWS for the next generation of identity enhancement products. Focused on resilience, code maintainability, quality, and internal engineering growth and support.
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest
September 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019
Internal API platform team: supported developer velocity by creating design, coding, and testing standards, tooling and examples. Improved infrastructure (Python 2 -> 3) and planned technical paths for future API technologies (GraphQL).
Principal Software Engineer at Grand Rounds
May 1, 2013 - August 1, 2017
Early career role focusing on API architecture, cross-team mentorship, and establishing scalable backend patterns.
Principal Software Engineer at Oath / AOL / Adap.tv
May 1, 2013 - August 1, 2017
Maintained a C-based RPC-over-HTTP API framework accessing a MySQL database; developed a REST API. Created macros and utilities to enable non-C programmers to safely write handlers in a C framework. Mentored junior developers and provided technical representation for cross-departmental planning.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration at California State University, East Bay
January 11, 2030 - December 18, 2025
BA, Business Administration at California State University, East Bay
January 11, 2030 - January 9, 2026
BA, Business Administration at California State University, East Bay
January 11, 2030 - January 9, 2026
BA at California State University, East Bay
January 11, 2030 - January 9, 2026

Qualifications

US Patent 9,038,074: System, method, and computer program product for controlling a process using a process map
May 19, 2015 - December 18, 2025
US Patent 9,830,435: Systems and methods are provided for providing login as a service
November 28, 2017 - December 18, 2025

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Other, Life Sciences