Richard Zimring

Software engineer · Minneapolis, MN

Experience

Sportradar Minneapolis, MN

Senior Software Engineer · Maven

Maven · Mar 2025 – Present

Lead development of Maven, a generative AI sports research platform — designed the model-agnostic, file-system based, SQL writing agent architecture that increased accuracy from 30% to 82% and made the system league-agnostic across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, CFB, and CBK
Built a GitLab MR review agent as a side project — rolled it out to other teams, and central engineering adopted it as the company-wide multi-tenant stack for automated code reviews
Maven insights were used on-air during the 2026 Super Bowl and 2025 World Series on FOX

Software Engineer · Insights and Analytics

Insights and Analytics · Sep 2023 – Mar 2025

Built and demoed, as a side project, the prototype that launched NLI (Natural Language Interface) at engineering all-hands to 800+ engineers — a chat interface over the Radar360 sports data catalog that generated OLAP DSL through multi-step prompt flows and ran RAG over an OpenSearch index of expert SQL queries from internal research Slack channels
Led development of core NLI services (Question Service, Test Framework, Maven) as it scaled from prototype to product; NLI was later featured at the AWS Summit Zurich 2025 keynote and demoed live at ICE Barcelona 2025
Cut platform-wide deployment time 50% by applying graph analysis to the construction step function
Authored a reusable Express/Lambda middleware package adopted across all Radar360 APIs

Software Engineering Intern · Insights and Analytics

Insights and Analytics · Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

Built a TypeScript data-integrity microservice on AWS Step Functions to safely migrate ingestion sources into production warehouses

Kellogg School of ManagementEvanston, IL

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022

Research Assistant

Researched smart contract exploits, cross-chain arbitrage, and DEX market manipulation under Dr. Sarit Markovich
Built a live analysis dashboard and analyzed terabytes of historical cryptocurrency transaction data in Python across ETH, BSC, and MATIC markets in collaboration with bloXroute Labs

JobOptimMinneapolis, MN

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021

Data Science Intern

Built a database of 1M+ medical codes across CMS/AMA standards and modeled physician compensation in Python by specialty, location, and experience

iOS app for coordinating plans with friends.

Syncs with Apple, Google, and Outlook calendars to show real-time availability and save events (automatic import & export sync)
Creates events with invitations, counter-proposals, RSVPs, and location search
Push notifications, haptics, blocked time windows, friends/groups
Built fully in TypeScript with React Native/Expo frontend and Node/Hono backend on AWS Lambda + API Gateway + PostgreSQL

Web app displaying live, interactive stock option data for any ticker.

2D heatmap of options chain data (strikes × expirations) colored by volume, open interest, price, spread, or greeks — cells link to Nasdaq contract pages
React 19 + TypeScript frontend with visx for visualization, auto-generated API client from OpenAPI spec
Hono backend on AWS Lambda + API Gateway with DynamoDB caching and a scheduled Lambda that refreshes valid tickers daily from OCC

Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL

2020 – 2023

McCormick School of Engineering

B.S. Computer Science · magna cum laude · GPA 3.95/4.0

Languages: TypeScript, Python
AI / LLMs: Agent architectures, agent evals, MCP, RAG, LLMOps (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry); AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry
Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SingleStore, OpenSearch, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, Aurora, SQS, S3, Cognito, CDK, Step Function), Auth0, Docker, event-driven architectures, WebSockets, SSE
Frontend: React, React Native / Expo, Astro, TanStack Query, Vite; Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Material UI