Dan Richards Email & Phone Number

Safety Harbor, Fl, Us

- Write stories and oversee the build of the BeautyBoss app with a mix of local and remote contractors.- Integrate technologies on the back-end and setup cloud infrastructure.- Collaborate with team members on logistics, local technologists with automation and remote staff on user experiences.

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

• Oversee Technical Roadmap• Assist building cross-functional management layer• Discuss strategic product / marketing implications

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Responsibilities• Lead new technical initiatives• Facilitate and lead strategic integrations.• Curate, vet, and onboard new engineers.• Help engineers with the difficult stuff.Achievements• Empower team members to refactor CPU-intensive services (that need scale) to Lambdas.• Empower team members to refactor code-base to mono-repo / microservices (Lerna) architecture where appropriate.• Listen to team members, and let them carve out a bigger stake in the tech stack.• Keep tooling, services and cognitive load on new developers lean.• Assist agencies in discrete, consumable side-projects.

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Responsibilities• Make "the things" that make "the money"• Plan, develop, and maintain tools for seller's network of 10,000+ stores using PHP (Laravel), Node / Javascript, and AWS. Maintain / oversee dev-ops pipeline.• Participate and carry-out the product vision and meet aggressive project deadlines in a startup environment.• Technical supervisor of new strategic partner integrations / API consumers.• Talent acquisition, local hires and outsourced hires. Mentor, manage, and write requirements for a geographically dispersed team. Vet / on board new team members.Achievements• Bootstrapped / Directed construction of the ShineOn API (api.shineon.com)• Created Shopify API client using Guzzle (two of them actually).• Created the ShineOn fulfillment app for Shopify.• Created seller-facing Shopify theme upgrade publishing system (automated updating of conversion tested product pages to thousands of stores).• Created seller-facing Shopify "one click" publishable "buyer upload" product pages for buyer facing print-on demand purchases (buyer can upload and purchase a print-on-demand product on any number of Shopify stores, the entire process fully automated).• Created seller-facing Shopify product publishing system, fully fleshed-out admin configuration, automation of high-quality digital assets and rendering. Hundreds of thousands of products in existence.• Created bundling system for print-on-demand fulfillment automation using Adobe Illustrator, CSV, PDF, and PHP automation (turn 400+ orders into a file that can be sent to a printer).• Payment integrations with Stripe, Paypal, Payoneer and accounting integrations with Xero.• Created custom reporting system with scheduling support and automation.• Seller Analytics platform leveraging Facebook and Google Analytics API.• Setup queue system using SQS / refactored application logic to leverage queue system.• Migrated all services from DigitalOcean to AWS.

Providence, Ri, Us

Responsibilities• Utilize PHP and Javascript to provide a custom Wellness SAAS platform to Fortune 500 companies. • Participate in the Agile Development Process and help scale the business.Achievements• Admin tools for client support team to fill support gaps, reduce the number of pushes required to onboard new clients to one, manage middle-market tier, and process manual incentives.• First release of three new user-generated challenges; supporting as many as 10,000 participants to compete tracking steps, exercise minutes and weight loss.• Suggested and implemented architectural improvements to platform’s component system.

Kingston, Ri, Us

Responsibilities• Manage and mentor student managers: purchasing, support, marketing, and database.Achievements• Created ordering system for value-added computer sales program built on PHP / CodeIgniter. Compiled student and sales data into marketing data (targeted marketing for store services) using MySQL.