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
Serve as company-wide champion for agent architecture — advise engineering teams on agent design, tooling, implementation, and evals
Shipped core product features end-to-end: rich inline tables with extracted query metadata, visualizations, expert-verification workflow with the Research team, notifications, and usage analytics
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 the prototype that launched NLI (Natural Language Interface) at engineering all-hands (800+ engineers) — a chat interface over the Radar360 sports data catalog with multi-step prompt flows generating OLAP DSL and RAG over OpenSearch-indexed expert SQL queries scraped 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
Drove platform-wide improvements: created a reusable Express/Lambda middleware package adopted across all Radar360 APIs, deployed custom domains via a custom Serverless Framework plugin, and standardized Mend (Whitesource) security monitoring across the tribe

Software Engineering Intern · Insights and Analytics

Insights and Analytics · Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

Designed and shipped a TypeScript data-integrity microservice with AWS Step Function to validate migrations of upstream data sources in 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 · GPA 3.95/4.0

Languages: TypeScript, Python
AI / LLMs: Agent architectures, MCP, RAG, LLMOps (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, evals, dataset curation); 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