Riley Thompson

I build the data pipelines behind commercial real-estate products — Snowflake and SQL in year one, Databricks and richer property data now.

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Lake Tahoe — raised in Tahoe City, based in San Diego.
Lake Tahoe shoreline

Current focus

  • Property-data workflows in Databricks at CoStar Group.
  • Snowflake pipelines and SQL transformations, shipped through CI/CD.
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About

Riley Thompson

I’m a software engineer at CoStar Group, where I build the data pipelines behind commercial real-estate products. My first year was Snowflake and SQL; these days it’s Databricks and more intricate property data.

Raised in Tahoe City, based in San Diego. B.S. in Computer Science from San Diego State University, 2025.

Experience

2025 — Present

Software Engineer · CoStar Group

Build and maintain Snowflake pipelines and SQL transformations that feed CoStar’s property data products, shipped through CI/CD. Promoted from Associate Software Engineer to Software Engineer 1 in June 2026; now developing property-data workflows in Databricks.

Snowflake Databricks SQL CI/CD

2023 — 2025

Teaching Assistant & Researcher · San Diego State University

TA’d four courses across the CS department: Unix Administration, Data Structures, Computer Security, and Cryptography with Applications to Blockchain, mentoring 80+ students and building the Gradescope autograder used by the Data Structures class. In the Wireless Communications Lab, co-developed an algorithm that uses quantum circuits to find Nash equilibria in multi-dimensional games, presented at the Student Research Symposium.

Linux C++ Python Qiskit

2023 — 2024

Officer · SDSU Cyber Defense Team

Helped deliver 100+ hours of offensive and defensive security training. Competed in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition and WRCCDC, and placed 24th of 4,672 teams in the National Cyber League team game.

Network security Incident response

B.S. Computer Science, San Diego State University, 2021–2025 · 3.89 GPA

Selected work

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Ix

2026

A TypeScript tool for understanding any system instantly.

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TypeScript Developer tools
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rthompsonexperience.com

Aug 2026

This site — hand-built with plain HTML and CSS, no framework, self-hosted fonts, light and dark themes, served from GitHub Pages.

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HTML/CSS GitHub Pages
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Skills

The tools that recur across this work, grouped by area.

Data & pipelines

Snowflake Databricks SQL CI/CD

Languages

Python TypeScript C++

Infrastructure & tooling

Linux Git Docker

Security

Network security Incident response