Rihards Opmanis
Senior Product Development Engineer
Tom Sawyer Software
Role at Tom Sawyer Software
Rihards Opmanis, Senior Product Development Engineer of Tom Sawyer Software, currently oversees the Graph Layout group. He leads enhancement work on features such as routing, labeling, and layout, and develops new features and layout styles. Rihards also handles layout functionality issues and improvements.
Rihards joined Tom Sawyer Software in 2004 as a Software Engineer. Since joining the company, he has worked on graph layout and graph analysis areas such as hierarchical layout, rotated labeling, and the eigenvector centrality algorithm. Rihards has also invented and implemented original algorithms and contributed ideas to improve graph layout quality and performance.
Education
Rihards holds a Master of Computer Science degree with distinction from the University of Latvia. He has also been a lecturer and assistant for courses on graph theory and computational geometry at the University of Latvia.