Richard Giliam
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Giliam is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a deep history of low-level systems work that began with installing Slackware from floppies and writing x86 assembly for graphics demos. He has led architecture and technical teams at AWS, IBM, and HPE, building production services in Go, Python, Scala and C/C++ across cloud, networking, and ML-driven performance analytics. Comfortable from kernel-space packet capture agents to distributed telemetry stacks (Kafka, Consul, Vault, Nomad), he blends hands-on development with architectural leadership and security-minded design. Richard’s curiosity-driven approach has produced practical tooling—like a Pocket PC packet driver and libpcap-compatible library—and drives him to explore heterogeneous compute (GPGPU/FPGA) and machine learning integrations. Based in Seattle, he is most productive tackling unfamiliar problems and turning nagging technical questions into robust, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
parser10
serializer10
amazon-ion10
java9
python9
rust8
driver8
intellij-idea7
rest7
idp7
dotnet7
identity-provider7
restful7
cpp7
go6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nirosys/stitch
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 9 pushes in 6 months
nirosys/ion-python
Oct 2023 - Jun 2025
A Python implementation of Amazon Ion.
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
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