Riley Thompson

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.

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

Elsewhere