Location: Oakland, California
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in SF Bay Area.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Gen AI (both user and engineering side), TypeScript, React, Python, SQL, Rust, cloud infrastructure, video and audio engineering
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/madisonrickert
Email: m [at] madisonrickert [dot] com
Open to: Senior SWE, FDE, Solutions Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer.
Domain verticals: AI, video/film tech, audio/music tech, financial tools, realtime software (games, rich interactive UX), business process automation.
Open Source: https://github.com/madisonrickert
Hi, I'm Madison Rickert, a senior software engineer who has been shipping code to production for over 20 years. Experienced engineering leader, presently all-in on agentic engineering, shipping code daily and finding new ways to push the envelope on its capabilities.
I'm an active contributor to several open-source MCP servers, build agent-first CLI tools, solve computer vision problems, and maintain a growing library of agent skills and agent harnesses I rely on daily.
For the past five-plus years I've been a partner and the in-house technical force at a creative studio. Before that, I was a senior IC and fractional engineering lead for a variety of startups and nonprofits, working across the full stack and mentoring teams of up to 5.
I have a penchant for both business and personal finance. Across my businesses and clients, I've been responsible for managing organizational finances and countless projects with typical budgets in the 5 to 6 figure range. Over the years this led me into financial automation, and I have several open-source projects in my portfolio in areas around agentic financial automation and investment management.
I'm also a working musician, and a hyper-organized Burning Man camp lead, best known around the Northern California festival scene for my saxophone performances for crowds up to 3,000 people.
I'm pivoting back to senior IC engineering after a long stretch as partner-operator. I'm excited to keep expanding the capabilities of AI, and my creative-tech and financial background will be a real asset to the right organization. If you're building software for creative work, media systems, music tech, financial tools, or AI tooling, I'd love to hear about it.