Experience

Principal Software Engineer @ TikTok
Lead Software Engineer @ Salesforce
DevOps @ Krux Digital, Jut.io, Personal Capital

Familiar Industries: Social Media, AI, AdTech, MarTech, CRM, Fintech

Project Types: Software, Data, DevOps, Network, AI/ML Infra

Roles: Tech Lead, Individual Contributor

Languages: Java, Python, GoLang, Javascript, Scala, Puppet, Chef, Terraform

Hi I’m David. I’m a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience working at startups and big tech companies in the Bay Area, most recently TikTok and Salesforce. At TikTok I was a leader on several teams, including user growth focusing on the new user FYP recommendations engine.

Projects

Parallel AI

Parallel AI helps businesses work smarter, with custom-built features designed to save time, money, and energy. Build virtual companies with AI employees, subject matter experts to chat with anytime, anywhere. Chat with your AI employees using slack and pull in helpful business context with knowledge base integrations like Google Drive and Confluence.

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Published

Inc.

A Cost-Effective Way to Unlock the Magic of GPT for Your Business. Training large language models is expensive and time-consuming. Here's another way to get what you want out of Chat GPT

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US Patent: US-11706313-B2

Systems, methods, and devices for user interface customization based on content data network priming

Full Document

Better Programing

Building streaming AI applications using Server-Sent Events and OpenAI

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Contact

Open for contract projects as a Project Leader or Individual Contributor. Let’s chat!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrichards5/
Email: david.richards.tech (@) gmail.com