# Ricky Raup

> Ricky Raup is a New York-based software engineer and founding engineer at AfterQuery whose short career already links nonprofit technology, University of Pennsylvania teaching, student ventures, Bloomberg data infrastructure, and applied AI research. His own record also reveals a parallel discipline: distance running and an expanding ledger of national parks, trails, and summits.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at AfterQuery
- **Organizations:** AfterQuery, Bloomberg LP, University of Pennsylvania, Hack4Impact, SphereUs
- **Education:** BSE in Computer Science; minor in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, MSE in Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Earned both BSE and MSE computer science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a mathematics minor., Co-founded SphereUs, whose team won the UPenn Summer Venture Award and a Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Startup Launch Award., Worked on sanctions data infrastructure at Bloomberg LP.

## Career timeline

- **2020-2023** — Worked at Hack4Impact as a project manager and technical lead on nonprofit technology.
- **2022-2024** — Served as a University of Pennsylvania teaching assistant for Automata, Computability & Complexity and Database & Information Systems.
- **2024** — Co-founded SphereUs with Ace Kim and Alima Aset; the team won the UPenn Summer Venture Award and a Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Startup Launch Award.
- **2024-2025** — Worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg LP on sanctions data.
- **2025-present** — Joined AfterQuery as a founding engineer.

## Achievements

- Earned both BSE and MSE computer science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a mathematics minor.
- Co-founded SphereUs, whose team won the UPenn Summer Venture Award and a Penn Wharton Innovation Fund Startup Launch Award.
- Worked on sanctions data infrastructure at Bloomberg LP.
- Joined AfterQuery as a founding engineer in November 2025.
- Ran on Saint Joseph's Prep's winning Philadelphia Catholic 4x400-meter relay team at the 2019 Penn Relays.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Started as a founding engineer at AfterQuery.
- **2025-10** — Recorded a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park and summits of Flattop Mountain and Hallett Peak on his personal site.
- **2025-09** — Recorded a visit to Acadia National Park on his personal site.

## Links

- Website: https://rickyraup.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-raup

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Last updated: 2026-09-27