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Rick Hightower Location
Austin, TX, US
Rick Hightower Work
Senior AI Consultant and Harness Engineering Architect Specialist @ (April 2026 - Present)
Anthropic Certified Claude Architect and AI Specialist @ (May 2026 - Present)
Principal Architect - Agentic AI and AI Engineer @ (March 2025 - Present)
Principal Architect - Agentic AI and AI Engineer @ (March 2023 - Present)
Lead Consultant @ (January 2020 - Present)
Enterprise Architect @ (January 2020 - Present)
Senior Director of Data Engineering ML and AI Delivery and Senior Distinguished Engineer @ (March 2018 - December 2019)
Software Engineering and Architecture Consultant at Capital One @ (October 2016 - March 2018)
Software Engineering and Architecture Consultant at Apple @ (January 2010 - March 2018)
Senior Software Developer and Senior Software Architect and CTO @ (February 2009 - March 2018)
Senior Engineering and Architecture Consultant at RedBull @ (December 2015 - December 2016)
Software Engineering and Architecture Consultant at the NFL @ (March 2012 - March 2016)
Senior Engineering and Architecture Consultant at RDIO @ Rdio (September 2014 - December 2015)
Chief Software Archtect - Director of Architecture @ (May 2009 - May 2011)
Software Engineering Consultant @ (January 2006 - February 2009)
CTO and Chief Mentor, Consultant @ (November 2003 - February 2009)
Software Engineering Consultant @ Consultant at Qualcomm (January 2004 - January 2009)
CTO @ Triveratech (January 2002 - November 2003)
Director of Development @ (January 2001 - January 2002)
Director of Architecture @ Buzzeo (November 1999 - January 2001)
Rick Hightower Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science (Business)
1996-2004
Rick Hightower Skills
Microservices
Vertx
Cassandra
Engineering Management
Systems Engineering
Software Engineering
Enterprise Architecture
Architecture
REST
JSON
Java Enterprise Edition
Java
JavaScript
NoSQL
SQL
SDLC
Web Services
Software Development
Cloud Computing
Hibernate
Spring
Web Applications
Maven
SOA
MySQL
Design Patterns
AJAX
JMS
Linux
Test Driven Development
Spring Framework
Groovy
JSP
Distributed Systems
Servlets
Management
PHP
Python
Programming Languages
Scalability
AspectJ
MongoDB
Big Data
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon EC2
C
C++
Memcached
Java Message Service (JMS)
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Kafka
Service Oriented Architecture Soa
Spark
Hadoop
Ansible
ElasticSearch
Java Message Service Jms
DevOps
Scala
Terraform
Amazon Web Services Aws
Hive
Redis
Akka
Amazon Web Services
Leadership
Agile Project Management
Agile Leadership
Hands on Technical Leadership
Rick Hightower Summary
Rick Hightower, based in Austin, TX, US, is currently a Senior AI Consultant and Harness Engineering Architect Specialist at Deploy Forward AI. Rick Hightower brings experience from previous roles at intent solutions io, Spillwave and Cloudurable Cassandra Kafka AWS DevOps Support. Rick Hightower holds a 1996 - 2004 Bachelor of Science in Business @ University of Phoenix. With a robust skill set that includes Microservices, Vertx, Cassandra, Engineering Management, Systems Engineering and more. Rick Hightower has 6 emails and 5 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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