Branden Richards
Sr SRE at Visa
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Richards is a Sr. SRE with 10 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, big data pipelines, and Linux infrastructure, currently at Visa after a multi-year SRE role at CyberSource. He combines hands-on software development in Go, Kotlin, and Python with deep Linux administration and GPU-accelerated ML work, having optimized training data generation by up to 1000x using concurrent Go routines. An active open-source developer and former Android author, he built the Elastic Sensor Dump app and designed Elasticsearch/Kibana visualizations for real-time sensor analytics. He also brings entrepreneurial and customer-facing experience from running an IT services business, and a decade of competitive hockey that informs his team-focused, performance-driven approach.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Engineering, 3.0+, Software Development, Engineering, 3.0+ at Front Range Community CollegeAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Software Engineering, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Software Engineering at Red Rocks Community CollegePomona High school
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Github Skills (6)
phones10
sensor9
dump9
elastic8
gps8
android6
Github contributions (5)
patw/ElasticSensorDump
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 9 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
android-phonesphoneselasticandroidsensor
Gurtok/ElasticSensorDump
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 15 branches in 4 months
android-phonesphoneselasticandroidsensor
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