Richard is an experienced engineer who has lead/managed teams at startups and big tech companies in social media, advertising, alternative investments, and healthcare. Previously, he was a staff engineer at GIPHY leading the ad products team.

Experience

AlchemyStaff Software Engineer

2025 — Now

New York City Metropolitan Area

Platform Infra team - Responsible for OLAP database (Druid) ingesting 30B+ events daily powering observability + external analytics dashboards, internal AI platform, and custom edge proxy handling 100k+ rps globally

Recurse CenterSabbatical

2024 — 2025

New York City Metropolitan Area

Database internals, transformers, and distributed systems, oh my!

GIPHYStaff Software Engineer

2023 — 2024

New York City Metropolitan Area

MetaSoftware Engineer, Technical Lead

2020 — 2023

New York, United States

GIPHYSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

New York City Metropolitan Area

Technical Lead of Ad Products Team.

GIPHY Inc. is the first and largest GIF search engine where thousands of artists, brands, and pop culture moments make today’s expression, entertainment, and info a little more moving. GIPHY is integrated into thousands of platforms, including iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Microsoft Teams, Tinder, Slack and WhatsApp. We serve more than 10 billion pieces of content (GIFs, Stickers, etc.) per day, to a daily user reach of 1+ billion.