Resume

Richard Zimring

Senior software engineer

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Experience

Sportradar Minneapolis, MN
Jun 2022 – Present

Senior Software Engineer · Maven

Mar 2025 – Present

  • Lead development of Maven, an 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

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

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

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Education

Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL
2020 – 2023

McCormick School of Engineering

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

Skills

LanguagesTypeScript · Python
AI

Agents · evals · MCP · RAG · LLMOps · Bedrock · Vertex · Azure

DataPostgres · DynamoDB · SingleStore · OpenSearch · Redis
InfrastructureAWS · Auth0 · Docker · event-driven · WebSockets · SSE
Frontend

React · React Native · Expo · Astro · TanStack Query · Vite