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Richard Matthew Hightower

Former Senior Director & Distinguished Engineer, Capital One | Founder, Spillwave Solutions • Spillwave Solutions

Austin, Texas, United States •

$5,001 - $10,000

4.6 (10 reviews)

About

Rick doesn't just talk about AI: he's built and shipped it at scale at multiple industries. His talks are grounded in real production failures and fixes, not slides full of theory. Audiences walk away with frameworks they can apply the next day. He recently spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Austin Claude Code Meetup on three generations of LLM agent orchestration, and his Harness Engineering series on Medium has reached over 830,000 readers. Whether it's a 45-minute keynote or a full-day hands-on workshop, he adjusts depth to the room and keeps executives and engineers engaged. Rick is an Anthropic Certified Claude Architect, and is under contract with Manning publishing to write a book on AI Harness Engineering.

Speaking Topics

Software

Artificial Intelligence

Harness Engineering

GenAI

Signature Programs (1)

Claude Code Skills to Adversarial Subagent Orchestrators to the Claude Agent SDK: Three Generations of a Production Research Pipeline

In this talk, I’ll share the real evolution of a production research pipeline through three generations of Claude Code-b…

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Available For

Conference (Full-day Event)

Workshop (3+ hour event)

Session (1-2 hour event)

Moderator

Meetup

Panel

Certificate Program

Fee

$5,001 - $10,000

Open To Bookings

North America

Languages

English