MATHIAS RICKEN

 
mgricken@gmail.com
(713) 568-6852 



EXPERIENCE


Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Software, Seattle, WA, Mar 2017 -
Developing reliable, efficient, and easy to use SDKs and CLIs for Oracle's
cloud infrastructure.
(Principal Member of Technical Staff: 2017-2020)


Senior Software Engineer
Tableau Software, Seattle, WA, Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Working at the intersection of Tableau's two most important projects:
Developing a Linux server, and creating an improved, scalable server
infrastructure and administration interface.


Senior Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
- Extending and simplifying the Subscriptions platform, the backbone of
  programs like Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, and Subscribe with
  Amazon by adding plug-in concepts and self-service web UIs.
- Converting the Kindle bookstore storefront to a server-side-rendered
  website correctly displayed on diverse hardware.
- Automatically detecting and rolling back deployments of faulty code.
- Responsive client-side web UI for self-service configuration of
  anomaly detection, including graphical display of past data and
  anomalies.
- Automatic modification of anomaly detection configuration based on
  user-supplied constraints.
- Anomaly detection service for numerical time-series data, consuming
  live metrics from thousands of distributed servers.
- Live migration from old service to scalable new service without
  downtime.
(2012 promotion to SDE II; 2015 promotion to Senior SDE)


Instructor, Production Programming
Spring 2009, Rice University


Instructor, Principles of Object-Oriented Programming 2
Fall 2008, Rice University



PATENTS

Integration based anomaly detection service US PTO 9015536
Detecting resource usage anomalies in a cloud computing environment.

Integration based anomaly detection service (cont'd) US PTO 9436535
Continuation of US patent 9015536.

Integration based anomaly detection service (cont'd) US PTO 10216560
Continuation of US patent 9436535.



EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science May 2011, Rice University, Houston, TX
Thesis: "A Framework for Testing Concurrent Programs"
Research Area: Programming Languages.  Advisor: Dr. Robert Cartwright



PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS (selected)

Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming
Ricken, M., E. Westbrook, and W. Taha
Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering 2010

Mint: Java Multi-stage Programming Using Weak Separability
Westbrook, E, M. Ricken, J. Inoue, Y. Yao, T. Abdelatif, and W. Taha
PLDI Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 2010

ConcJUnit: Unit Testing for Concurrent Programs
Ricken, M., and R. Cartwright. 
PPPJ Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java 2009

Design Patterns for Parsing
Nguyen, D., M. Ricken, and S. Wong
SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2005