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Engineering Leader·Venture Partner·Advisor·Angel Investor·Technologist

Building for humanity
Investing in incredible humans

Portrait of Rick Boone

Two decades of engineering, and engineering leadership, at Meta, Uber and Carta. Today I invest in, advise, and build alongside founders and operators shaping what comes next.

I'm driven by strategy, execution and culture — and most alive alongside exceptional founders and builders who treat all three as inseparable. That's where my best work happens.

What keeps me obsessed is technology, humans, and human behavior — how technology reshapes us, how decisions get made, how teams cohere, how leaders grow. It's the lens I bring to engineering, to investing, and to every conversation in between.

Curriculum Vitae

Full CV
Current

Venture Partner

Antler

Angel Investor

Independent

Founder + Executive Coach

Independent

Previous

VP, Infrastructure Engineering

Carta

Strategic Advisor to VP, Infrastructure Engineering

Uber

ML + Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Uber

Founding Engineer, SRE

Uber

Production Engineer

Facebook / Meta

Education

B.S. Computer Science

University of Southern California

HS Diploma

Stuyvesant High School

Coaching + Advisory

How I work

The technical and the human aren't separate problems. Strategy, execution, and behavior live as one fabric. That's the lens I bring to my work with founders, executives, and senior operators.

Founder

Partnership + guidance for those taking their company - and themselves - from 0 to 1.

Executive

Sharpening the strategy, judgment, and leadership capabilities of senior executives.

Career

Guiding individuals through growth, transitions, and the path to senior + staff-level impact.

Vantage (Market Analysis Tool) screenshot

Vantage (Market Analysis Tool)

building
last touched 2026-06-28

An agentic market-research analyst that pairs thousands of technical asset signals with news + market data to identify hidden opportunities and emerging trends.

2026-06-28Ship editorial web dashboard: chat + brief viewer + data views + SSE refresh pipeline.
Wake (Portfolio Analysis Tool) screenshot

Wake (Portfolio Analysis Tool)

shipped
last touched 2026-06-28

A financial portfolio history and decision-analysis tool that evaluates past trades and current holdings, so future decisions benefit from prior outcomes.

2026-06-28Rebrand to Wake. Harden .gitignore for public repo hygiene.

Let's Connect

Whether you're building something new, looking for a thought partner, or exploring an investment — I'd love to hear from you.