Bryan Richter
DevOps Engineer at Haskell Foundation
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolBryan Richter is a DevOps engineer in Helsinki with 15 years of experience building resilient infrastructure, deployment workflows, and CI improvements for compiler and web ecosystems. He helped the Haskell Foundation reduce spurious CI failures and independently migrated critical services like Stackage, combining hands-on operations with cross-team coordination and public reporting. A longtime Haskell contributor—working on notable projects such as Yesod and a popular Vim instant-markdown plugin—he brings deep functional programming expertise to backend and tooling challenges. Bryan has led teams and prototyped scalable deployment tooling at RELEX, and driven test, CI, and documentation initiatives in academic and nonprofit projects. He’s known for thinking deeply and producing unconventional yet pragmatic solutions, pairing strategic planning with the ability to implement complex changes end-to-end. His background in computational physics and sustained open-source collaboration underline a curiosity-driven approach to robust, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computational physics, Bachelor of Science, Computational physics at University of California, Davis
English, Swedish, Finnish
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Github Skills (23)
markdown10
yesod10
vim10
markdown-it10
cabal10
web-framework10
haskell10
json9
build-automation9
prototypes9
system-administration9
shell8
sh8
script8
scripting8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/yesod
Jan 2012 - Oct 2016
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the `yesodweb/yesod` repository by enhancing the Yesod web framework's functionality and improving its build process. Key contributions include implementing the `jsonOrRedirect` function and refactoring existing code for better maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed dependency issues and added support for Keter build arguments. They also made improvements to the documentation and cleaned up scaffold files.
apirestfulhaskellframeworkwebframework
instant-markdown/vim-instant-markdown
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Instant Markdown previews from Vim
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily worked on improving the "instant-markdown/vim-instant-markdown" repository, focusing on enhancing real-time markdown preview functionality. They refactored and cleaned up system calls, removed deprecated features, and introduced utility functions to manage daemon processes. The user implemented features for live refreshing and added options for controlling refresh behavior, ultimately improving the user experience and the responsiveness of the Markdown preview within Vim.
previewsmarkdownviminstant
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