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Jon Richards

Software Engineer

Hood River, Oregon | gorgeguy@gmail.com

Summary

I’m passionate about how AI is transforming software engineering. My focus is twofold: helping build products that integrate AI to solve real-world problems, and bringing AI-powered tools into development processes to dramatically increase engineering velocity and impact. With decades of backend and automation experience, I’m exploring how AI can be used not just as a feature, but as a force multiplier for innovation.

Experience

Oracle Corporation 1999–2025_ | Hillsboro, OR

Software Engineer

  • Most recently worked in the OCI Region Build Automation teams, helping create and maintain applications and processes used in the construction of new data centers worldwide.
  • Led design and implementation of PXE-based device installation and configuration utilities using Python (OCI SDK) and Bash, streamlining setup for OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure devices.
  • Automated full-rack backup and restore workflows for Oracle Cloud at Customer, cutting iteration time from 5 days to 5 hours.
  • Designed benchmarking framework for OCI Digital Media Services to measure FFmpeg transcode performance across compute shapes.
  • Co-invented patented VM image generation technology for multi-tier installations.
Informix Corporation 1993–1999_ | Portland, OR

Software Engineer

  • Developed non-preemptive threading library in assembly for SMP architectures used in RDBMS kernel development.
  • Built real-time graphical tool for monitoring parallel SQL queries.
  • Implemented Binary Large Object (BLOB) storage and enhanced transactional logging subsystems.

Skills

Languages: Python, Bash, C, Java, SQL Tools: Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, PyCharm, IntelliJ Platforms: Linux, Unix, Solaris, OCI, Docker, Apache Focus Areas: Backend automation, AI-assisted development, infrastructure tooling, performance benchmarking

Patents

  • US 9,690,607 — Automated VM assembly and deployment (2017)
  • US 9,612,803 — Multi-node virtual appliance construction (2017)

Education

B.S. Computer Science — Portland State University, Portland, OR

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