Richard Marmorstein

[email protected] - Las Vegas, NV 89128

Get to know me

I gave a talk at Strange Loop about SDK generation. Watch it!
Read my writing. Hacker News best liked my essay "Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven"
I organized tapl.dev, a small reading group of practitioners working through "Types and Programming Languages", a graduate-level textbook about programming language theory.

My History

Software Engineer - Developer Experience Stripe (July 2019 - Present)

SDKs - Responsible for Stripe's open-source server-side SDKs for Ruby, Python, PHP, Node, Java, Dotnet, and Go
SDK generator - Responsible for api-codegen, Stripe's project for generating SDKs and SDK-aware surfaces (Typescript)
API Review - Consulted on RESTful API design across the Stripe API
Developer Tools - Contributed to Stripe's Developer Dashboard (React, Ruby) and the Stripe CLI (Go)

Lead Engineer - Developer Experience Vimeo (Oct 2018 - July 2019)

Managed a team of 3 reports to improve Vimeo's internal developer productivity. Responsible for
- Speed/reliability of CI systems
- Docker-based local development environment
- CLI tool to automate / increase discoverability of common developer tasks

Lead Engineer - Live Platform Team Vimeo (Oct 2017 - Oct 2018)

Managed a team of ~5 reports to deliver features to the Vimeo Live product, including "Simulcast" and "Scheduled Live Events" (PHP, MySQL, React)

Software Engineer - API Team Livestream (Feb 2015 - Oct 2017 Acquisition by Vimeo)

Feature development and devops on Livestream's backend API (Node.js, MySQL, Redis, React, GCP, Puppet, Docker)
Shipped features related to discovery, syndication, billing, authentication, and more

Education

Washington and Lee University Lexington VA (May 2014)

B.S. Computer Science (with honors) / B.A. Economics
Minor in Mathematics
Magna cum laude