Hi, I'm Rick
Software Engineer đź’»
Homelab enthusiast 🤖 | Amateur mixologist 🍹 | Cursed sports fan đź«
Washington D.C. 🏛️
I am software engineer with a passion for solving problems. I enjoy the creavitity and challenges that come with creating reliable, scalable, and performant software.
When I am not writing code for work, I enjoy programming in my spare time to solve real or imagined problems. Most of what I have written is now running on my Proxmox mini-PC or in my VPS.
Fullstack Engineer where I work on Axon’s Device Evidence Management System (DEMS). My focus is on scaling and optimizing search performance for one of the world’s largest public safety data repositories—managing a collection of data that rivals the scale of Netflix and YouTube combined. I spend most of my time deep in Apache Solr, ensuring that critical evidence is searchable and performant at a massive scale. Previously, I helped build out Axon’s Community Request platform.
As a Technical Account Manager at Qualtrics, I sat at the intersection of product strategy and technical implementation. While I consulted for public and private sector clients on their employee listening programs, I found my niche in internal tool development. I led the creation of custom scripts and tools designed to automate and streamline internal workflows, significantly increasing team efficiency across the TAM organization.
If you want to get in touch with me about something or just to say hi, reach out on social media or send me an email.