# Ric L.

> Engineering Leader, Software and ML/AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ric

I'm an engineering leader with experience leading large-scale projects from start to finish.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ MasterClass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led company-wide project to integrate new experimentation framework
• Developed experimentation efficiencies, reducing company costs
• Led API migration, reducing company costs

### Senior Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed backend changes to allow creators to upload videos to their campaigns
• Created a new way for creators to make and track benefits given to patrons based on strict benefit types
• Enhanced and improved the performance of app integrations with platform services

### Core Platform Engineer @ Postmates Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Fixed numerous issues with previous sync flow between legacy and new inventory systems
• Improved reliability and performance of main inventory Elixir app
• Led team of 5 in building a new POS service to act as an interface to multiple downstream POS integrations

### Platform Engineer @ HotelTonight
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Updated main app used by hotel partners for all interactions with the HT platform
• Added ranking guidance to mobile, allowing partners to see actions they can take to improve 
• Integrated hotel-level demand prediction into the extranet app to allow hotel partners to gauge how many rooms to load on a given day
• Used gradient boosting machine learning tool for refined booking predictions model

### Platform Engineer @ Banjo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Redwood City, CA
• Built services to support complex service-oriented architecture                   
• Created vital new data service that increased data intake by 10%                   
• Managed communication between 40+ services using HTTP requests, Kafka, and Redis
• Built new system to intake data and protect flow from supplier disruption                   
• Worked on pilot projects to use new sources of data from providers to give team new insights

### Backend Engineer @ The Orange Chef Company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
• Built autoscaling EventStore on AWS using SaltCloud for scaling and Docker for app container 
• Architected schema for improved version of Countertop app
• Created programmatic integration between Countertop and a major wearable partner’s app to allow cross-communication between apps
• Built integration that could be extended to other potential future partners
• Started presenting insights from company data that was previously not aggregated
• Wrote multiple programs to visualize client base, client activities, app performance, and other metrics


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Harvard University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ric-l-70532a8b

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Last updated: 2026-03-23