I'm a Rice-trained full-stack software engineer building resilient backend services, infrastructure-minded systems, and practical AI-enabled tools across web, cloud, and distributed environments.
About
I like Full stack development with a focus on backend and infrastructure with some AI-minded features. I enjoy solving complex problems in clean and simple ways.
I'm Richard Hu, a full-stack software engineer based in Houston. I finished my Master of Computer Science at Rice University after studying Economics and Computer Science at Davidson College.
At SLB, I work on cloud, rig-edge, and remote-operation systems. At Twilio, I built telemetry infrastructure for voice systems. Before that, I worked on internal tools for China Everbright Bank. I enjoy problems where the code has to be clean, the system has to be reliable, and the user still needs a clear path through it.
Full-stack
I like owning the path from API to UI.
Backend + infra
Services, queues, storage, deployment, and the messy parts between them.
AI-minded
Interested in AI features that are useful, tested, and grounded.
Projects
A mix of production-style systems work, AI tooling, hackathon shipping, and full-stack product development.
Full-stack trade-document intake platform with modular backend skills for parsing, OCR fallback, translation, requirement extraction, sourcing workflows, and LLM quality guardrails.
C++ reliable file transfer protocol over UDP with a three-way handshake, sliding window, checksums, ACK-based transfer, retransmission timeouts, and packet-loss recovery.
Hack@Davidson-winning transcription and summary app built in 48 hours with an asynchronous FastAPI backend, LangChain MapReduce workflows, and a Next.js interface.
GRE vocabulary review app using spaced repetition, Django REST APIs, JWT authentication, MySQL data modeling, and a Next.js frontend designed from Figma.
Experience
Mar 2026 - Present
Houston, TX
Build full-stack features across cloud, rig-edge, and remote-operation systems for drilling workflows in distributed, low-connectivity environments. Design resilient .NET microservices and APIs with messaging, persistence, buffering, and retry logic, while developing Angular components and test coverage for configuration, routing, migration, and unit-system workflows.
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Remote, US
Built a distributed telemetry pipeline in C++ for RTP/SIP packet capture and processing, publishing metrics to ClickHouse and Grafana through OpenTelemetry. Added batching and compression, deployed with AWS EC2, Docker, and Kubelet, and supported load tests for 300+ new concurrent SIP calls per second.
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Hangzhou, China
Developed RESTful APIs and CRUD webpages for an HR evaluation system using Java Spring, MyBatis, Oracle SQL, Vue.js, Postman, and Jest. Built reusable UI components across desktop and mobile views and helped reduce manual HR data-management work.
Education
Aug 2024 - Dec 2025
Master of Computer Science
GPA: 3.64/4.0 | Houston, TX
Aug 2020 - May 2024
B.S. in Economics and Computer Science
Magna cum laude, GPA: 3.9/4.0 | Davidson, NC
Contact
I'm based in Houston and interested in engineering work where reliable backend systems, usable interfaces, cloud infrastructure, and practical AI workflows meet.
