Rick Weber
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Weber is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on development and eight years of professional experience, blending deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Engineering—with practical system delivery. He builds high-performance scientific and GPU-accelerated applications in FORTRAN, CUDA, OpenCL and C++, while also shipping modern full-stack and UX work in React/Typescript, Electron, Objective-C, and Rust+WASM. His background spans cloud scale-out services, FPGA hardware design with Clash/VHDL, and embedded systems from Gameboy Advance to Raspberry Pi, giving him a rare cross-layer fluency from silicon to user interfaces. Rick has held senior engineering roles at Microsoft, Tableau, and Salesforce and currently teaches while contributing as a software engineer in Seattle, reflecting a mix of industry leadership and academic mentorship. He’s noted for doing things the right way—attention to detail and correctness—applied across performance-critical code and emerging proof-of-concept technologies.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Engineering, PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
French
Github Skills (134)
encryption10
javascript10
compiler10
rust10
react-dnd10
typescript10
css10
chrome10
cryptography10
homomorphic-encryption10
editor9
linux9
uglifyjs9
html9
benchmark9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Sunscreen-tech/Sunscreen
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
A compiler for fully homomorphic encryption and zero knowledge proofs
Contributions:257 reviews, 297 commits, 203 PRs in 1 year 2 months
compilerhomomorphic-encryptioncryptographyzero-knowledge
tableau/ts-checked-fsm
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
TypeScript library providing compile-time checking for state machine transitions
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 4 months
compile-timestate-machinetypescript
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