Rick Osborne
Cloud & Mobile Engineering Force Multiplier
Web software professional since 1995. Leadership, Education, Architecture, Development, Exploration, Research.
Employment
Staff Software Engineer
Oct 31, 2022Dec 31, 2025identifeye HEALTHCloud Software for Retinal ImagingSF Bay Area, CA, USSenior IC for small-team startup making cloud-based retinal imaging and data pipeline APIs
- Leadership: Self-directed goals of making development and release safer, more automated, more stable, and more reliable while also keeping the code maintainable by all of us.
- Education: Regularly created and held onsite deep-dives into upcoming tech concepts, such as mTLS and stateless session management.
- Architecture: Primary architect and developer for the cloud build system, authentication, and data pipeline tooling.
- Development: One of three ICs responsible for all cloud and data pipeline development.
Senior Principal Software Architect II
Aug 2015Jul 2022Roche Sequencing SolutionsCloud Software Medical DevicesSF Bay Area, CA, USMulti-product and multi-program architecture, team leadership, and prototype development for cloud software medical devices and related clinical biomarker applications.
- Leadership: Senior-most software engineer and technical lead on multiple projects and teams.
- Education: Evangelist for engineering iteration, including slide decks, reference docs, deep dive videos, etc.
- Architecture: Primary source of software engineering vision, and collaborative source for execution, across several cloud software products, projects, and programs.
- Development: Pre-alpha prototyping of emerging technologies, primarily Java- and AWS-based; proof-of-concept implementations of disruptive singularities; heavy-lift spikes.
Rocket Scientist (Front-End Engineering Manager)
Aug 2013Aug 2015Rocket Fuel, Inc.Ad TechSF Bay Area, CA, USCo-manager over a team of ~40 front-end software engineers working on internal tools for ad tech management.
Program Manager
Jul 2009Jul 2013Full Sail UniversityEducationOrlando, FL, USDesigned and ran the Web Design & Development degree programs, both campus and online, and co-designed and co-ran the Mobile Development degree programs.
Web Development Lead
Jun 2005Jul 2009Dixon TiconderogaArt & Writing Supplies, ManufacturingSole Web developer for this 200-year-old writing and art supplies manufacturing company, primarily focused on mainframe integration, budget planning, and sales analytics visualization.
Lead Web Programmer
20032005Creative Data ConceptsInternet Service Provider & Web DevelopmentSole in-house Developer, Database Administrator, and Network Administrator for several systems.
Lead Web Programmer
20002002Mojo InteractiveWeb DevelopmentSenior Web Developer
19982000Phoenix InternationalInternet Banking SoftwareWeb Developer
19961998Northrop-Grumman Corp.US Government ContractingContact
URL
rickosborne.org
rickosborne@duck.com
Location
Profiles
Education
Education Media Design & Technology
20112011M.S.Full Sail University4.0Information Systems Technology
20072009B.S.University of Central FloridaProjects
@rickosborne on npm
www.npmjs.com/~rickosborneTypeScript libraries I've built up and open-sourced for use in my personal projects
Should I Create A Ticket?
should-i-create-a-ticket.teamSnarky one-page site you can link to in group chat whenever someone asks the inevitable question.
words.supply
words.supplyGeek-oriented wordlist, dictionary, and identifier generator web app, intended for projects which need URL- and human-safe random word generators.
ricko.is Bounce
github.com/rickosborne/bounceBare bones link shortener I created for myself to use, but which has gone through a number of tech stack iterations over the years.
Skills
Team Leadership
advanced- vision
- communication
- mentorship
- guidance
Front-End Web
master- html
- css
- javascript
- typescript
- ux
Cloud Engineering
advanced- aws
- java
- typescript
- data modeling
Mobile Engineering
intermediate- android
- java
Interests
tabletop RPGs
- gaming
- social
- creativity
- collaboration
- empathy
board games
- gaming
- strategy
- tactics
- social
- instruction
- cooperation
console gaming, open-world RPGs
- gaming
- strategy
- tactics
- problem solving
programming
- web
- mobile
- gaming
- data
writing
- fiction
- creativity
- research
- perspective