Rick Marry
Orange,CT
Summary
Senior Staff Engineer with extensive experience at Intuit, focusing on distributed systems architecture and cloud computing. Delivered substantial enhancements in platform reliability and scalability while providing mentorship to engineering teams. Proficient in Java and Terraform, implementing solutions that improve performance and promote cross-functional collaboration.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Engineer
Intuit
New York, NY
06.2025 - Current
- Senior Staff-level Engineer for the QuickBooks mid-market platform, supporting millions of small businesses across multiple product domains.
- Architected an automated multi-company hierarchy restructuring system, orchestrating complex contractual and data dependencies across Payments, Identity, Reporting, API, and Database domains.
- Provided staff-level technical leadership across five product domains, highlighting platform-wide reliability and scalability patterns.
- Identified recurring customer and platform issues via cross-domain analysis, facilitating scalable architectural fixes instead of isolated point solutions.
- Influenced platform architecture and long-term technical strategy through collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
- Developed and maintained QuickBooks services for millions of small businesses across diverse product domains.
- Environment: Java, Python, AWS, Microservices, API Design, Relational Databases
Senior Software Architect
LinkSquares Inc.
Boston, MA
11.2022 - 01.2025
- Architect and technical leader for high-performance, multi-tenant data systems serving enterprise legal customers.
- Designed and implemented a new multi-tenant data processing pipeline with custom Elasticsearch mappings and configurations, reducing query latency by 40% and significantly improving end-user experience.
- Led cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and customer success, delivering customer-driven solutions that increased platform adoption by 25%.
- Reduced cloud costs by 20% through infrastructure optimization. by redesigning AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, creating a scalable and maintainable architecture.
- Implemented advanced observability using Datadog and CloudWatch, reducing production incident response time by 30%.
- Mentored engineers on distributed systems best practices, enhancing code quality and operational maturity.
- Delivered tailored solutions to enterprise legal customers, ensuring alignment with their specific needs and requirements.
- Environment: Ruby on Rails, Python, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3), Terraform, Datadog
Principal Software Engineer
Harness Inc.
San Francisco, CA
04.2022 - 11.2022
- Designed multi-regional, fault-tolerant distributed workflows that enhanced high availability for critical SaaS services.
- Built scalable CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes (GCP), reducing deployment times by 35% while improving cross-region resiliency.
- Migrated core systems from Guice to Dagger2, resulting in consistent dependency management and improved performance.
- Environment: Java, Kubernetes, GCP, Microservices
Senior Software Engineer
Chef Software
Bedford, MA
02.2017 - 03.2022
- Designed concurrent Golang APIs to enable real-time compliance workflows and monitoring.
- Built a high-throughput compliance service in Go, processing hundreds of thousands of reports daily and integrating with Elasticsearch.
- Transitioned legacy workflows to highly concurrent architectures, reducing processing time by 50% and achieving 99.99% uptime.
- Optimized Elasticsearch indexing and query strategies, enhancing data retrieval performance by 30%.
- Presented on cloud compliance and system resilience at ChefConf 2014 and ChefConf 2018.
- Acquired by Progress software
- Environment: Go, Ruby, Elasticsearch, gRPC / Protobuf, CI/CD Pipelines
Senior Software Engineer
General Electric
San Ramon, CA
09.2015 - 01.2017
- Automated secure artifact pipelines with AWS S3 and RabbitMQ, ensuring 99.9% reliability.
- Developed Go-based microservices and CI/CD pipelines, enhancing fault tolerance of SaaS platforms.
- Modernized legacy systems into API-first, distributed architectures.
- Digital
- Environment: Go, gRPC, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS, Cloud Foundry
Chief Architect
General Electric
Danbury, CT
07.2005 - 09.2015
- Architected and delivered enterprise platforms enabling regulated financial workflows for GE Capital businesses.
- Designed Spring-based document management systems for millions of users, improving access to critical information.
- Reduced deployment times by 50% through optimized orchestration layers and CI/CD pipelines.
- Led development of iOS and Android applications enabling real-time compliance access for field teams.
- Capital Americas
- Environment: Java, Spring, REST APIs, CI/CD, Chef, Jenkins, Mobile Platforms
Earlier Career
UBS Investment Bank
Stamford, Connecticut
- Developed low-latency, high-volume trading, pricing, and risk systems in C++ and Java to enhance trading efficiency.
- Engineered real-time analytics and reconciliation pipelines for large-scale financial transactions to improve transaction accuracy.
Education
BS - Computer Science
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CTAS - Electrical Engineering
Norwalk State Technical College
Norwalk, CTSkills
- Java, Go, Python, and Ruby
- C programming
- Distributed systems architecture
- Event-driven architectures
- Cloud computing (AWS and GCP)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform and Terragrunt)
- Search technologies (Elasticsearch and OpenSearch)
- Query optimization and indexing
- High-volume data pipelines
- System design principles
- Performance tuning strategies
- Scalability solutions
- Observability practices
- CI/CD pipeline management
Websites
Presentations And Innovations
- Cloud Compliance and System Resilience, ChefConf 2014, YouTube Link
- Continuous Delivery Best Practices, ChefConf 2018, YouTube Link
- US Patent #7082417B1, Method and system for reporting mail status
Accomplishments
- Tau Alpha Pi National Engineering Honor Society
- National Dean's List
Earlier Career
- UBS (Repo Trading), Built low-latency, high-volume trading, pricing, and risk systems in C++ and Java., Designed real-time analytics and reconciliation pipelines supporting large-scale financial transactions.
- Sempra Energy Trading, Built low-latency, high-volume trading, pricing, and risk systems in C++ and Java., Designed real-time analytics and reconciliation pipelines supporting large-scale financial transactions.
Technical Expertise
Java, Go, Python, Ruby, C++, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform / Terragrunt, Infrastructure as Code, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Query & Index Optimization, High-Volume Data Pipelines, System Design, Performance Tuning, Scalability, Observability, CI/CD Pipelines
Timeline
Senior Staff Engineer
Intuit
06.2025 - Current
Senior Software Architect
LinkSquares Inc.
11.2022 - 01.2025
Principal Software Engineer
Harness Inc.
04.2022 - 11.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Chef Software
02.2017 - 03.2022
Senior Software Engineer
General Electric
09.2015 - 01.2017
Chief Architect
General Electric
07.2005 - 09.2015
Earlier Career
UBS Investment Bank
BS - Computer Science
Sacred Heart University
AS - Electrical Engineering
Norwalk State Technical College