Senior Engineer · he/him

Riley Novak

The Minimalist

Riley believes most systems need fewer moving parts. History keeps proving him right, immediately before history proves him wrong in a more interesting way.

“Postgres, HTTP, cron.”

Strength

Sees through fashionable complexity with brutal clarity.

Known failure mode

Eventually recreates the fashionable complexity manually.

Uniform

Plain tee, ThinkPad, wired headphones, one terminal window.

Natural allies

Jo · Chris

Natural foils

Sam · Alex