About

Hey there! I’m Richard Herndon, a guy that lives in Seattle. I like movies, video games, tennis, and making people laugh.

Professionally, I’m a software engineer. I’m currently taking a break from work to get some rest and tinker with various personal projects. I was the first employee and founding engineer at Fermat, where I built backend systems in Golang, managed infrastructure and dev tools, and mentored other engineers. Prior to that, I was the tech lead of a team at LiveRamp that worked on core big data services using tools like Spark and MapReduce.

I’m interested in building software that runs well, in solving fun problems, and in learning from what I do. I take pride in my work, and I like working with people who do the same. I’m increasingly interested in working in low-level, performance-sensitive domains. If any of that makes me sound like someone you’re interested in working with, get in touch!

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Getting in touch

I love to talk about games, movies, media, software development, dogs, coffee, writing, books, tennis, baseball or anything that you know more about than I do. If you’d like to chat about any of that or schedule time to do so, email me. I’m more than happy to collaborate with kind people, so if you want my advice on something I have experience with, or want to work together on something new, hit me up.

About this site

This site was built by yours truly. It’s a mixture of statically built HTML files and some dynamic server-side logic. All the code that powers the site is written in Go, with just a tiny bit of HTMX sprinkled in on the client-side for some form response handling. I hope to make the code public somewhat soon for any freaks who are interested in that.