Summary
Rick Boykin is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16 years of experience delivering scalable cloud, mobile, web, and desktop solutions across aerospace, operating systems, entertainment, and enterprise domains. He currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at Steno, following a track record as a Founding Software Engineer at DreamTeam and as CTO of Pixmoto, where he steered architecture, devops, and product direction. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles at Mondo Robot, Asymptotik, Anark, Oracle, ChannelPoint, Sun Microsystems, and NASA Langley, delivering complex systems for clients like NASA, Boeing, Cessna, and Microsoft. He thrives on assembling high-performance teams and turning difficult requirements into reliable, auditable software across languages and stacks—from TypeScript, React, and Node to Java, C++, and Swift, with cloud-native AWS implementations. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he holds a Computer Science degree from Christopher Newport University (BS in CS, Mathematics) and additional CS studies from Old Dominion University. Rick combines strategic vision with deep technical craft, consistently shipping impactful software at scale.
16 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A at Christopher Newport University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Old Dominion University