Richard Lau

United States

@richardlaucla

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Problem Solving
Python
Sql
Ruby

Certifications

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    InMarket, LLC•  October 2021 - October 2024•  Culver City

    Own and maintain Ruby on Rails backend server for mobile app. Maintain quality of code with Rubocop and Rspec tests. Integrate with metric tracers such as Datadog and Coralogix. Optimize and document code for PHP backend server. Implement tools in PHP/Javascript/HTML for Admin Dashboard.

  • Software Engineer II

    Retention Science•  January 2018 - January 2021•  Santa Monica

    Interview, test, and onboard new engineers. Create internal tools in Ruby. Lead projects in Ruby and Python for data ingestion and client reporting.

  • Software Engineer I

    ACT•  January 2016 - January 2018•  San Jose

    Use SQL for analytics. Use Python in Apache Spark notebooks for video caption analysis. Maintain clean code using Rubocop and test code using RSpec.

Education

  • App Academy

    Bootcamp•  May 2016 - July 2016

  • UCLA

    B.A. in Sociology•  June 2012 - June 2012

Skills

Docker
PagerDuty
Heroku
New Relic
Airbrake
DataDog
Coralogix
Rubocop
RSpec
AWS S3
AWS Lambda
AWS ECS
Sidekiq
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Python
PHP
JavaScript
C++
Java