Richard Ney is a seasoned software engineering professional with extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale systems. Currently serving as a Principal Software Engineer at Cisco since November 2025, Richard is focused on AI-SPM. Previously, as a Senior Principal Architect at Lookout from March 2018 to November 2025, Richard led significant architectural modernization initiatives, optimizing customer-facing APIs and threat detection infrastructure for over 3 million devices. Key achievements include architecting a next-generation API platform, implementing a high-scale application analysis datastore, and re-architecting a device telemetry pipeline, all while achieving substantial cost savings and performance improvements. Richard's earlier career spans multiple roles at Aspect Software and other organizations, contributing to business intelligence frameworks, data collection systems, and client/server applications, beginning in 1987. Richard holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from National University.
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