James Richards

Current

• Engineering Manager at LinkedIn

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Linkedin
• Senior Software Engineer at DemandTec
• Software Engineer at E Patterns

• Software Engineer at IBM

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Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

Recommended

5 people have recommended James

Connections

253 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Linkedin Is Hiring!!!

James Richards’s Summary

Experienced Software Engineer who has worked on all levels of the technology stack. From system level file server access, to most recently developing complex web architectures using java and related open source projects.

Interests include object oriented design and related patterns, statistical analysis, and computer science theory and practice.

James Richards’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, OOD, Linux, SQL, ldap, perl, ruby

James Richards’s Experience

• Engineering Manager

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (2 months)

  I'm Managing a team of exceptional engineers who are responsible for Member Profiles, Company Profiles, Groups, News, and Recommendations.
  
  Other duties include moonlighting as a software engineer.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Linkedin

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2005 — September 2008 (3 years)

  Member of the Content, Distribution, and Networks group (affectionately called CDN). I'm responsible for member profiles (like the one your are reading) and recommendations.

• Senior Software Engineer

  DemandTec

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; DMAN; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 2 months)

  Developed platform and application level systems leveraging j2ee technologies.

• Software Engineer

  E Patterns

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2000 — August 2001 (9 months)

  Researched and blended new technologies for event based system software.

• Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 7 months)

  My first job out of college. I worked in the obscure world of VSAM/RLS. Long story short - I worked on parallel data access for IBM's mainframe OS.

James Richards’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BS, Computer Science, 1994 — 1999

  I entered UCSB with a desire to study biology. In the last quarter of my first year, I enrolled in my first computer science course. Shortly after, I realized my passion for computers. I changed my major, and the rest - as they say - is history

Additional Information

James Richards’s Websites:

• Linkedin Is Hiring!!!

James Richards’s Interests:

Backpacking, Fly fishing, Soccer, Baseball, Travel.

James Richards’s Groups:

South Bay Adult Soccer League

•    Obama for America
•    Java Architect
•    UCSB Alumni Association

James Richards’s Contact Settings

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