Colin Richardson
Director Of IT Strategy
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Richardson is a seasoned IT strategy leader and founder with over a decade managing macOS and iOS-first enterprise services for SMBs and non-profits. As Owner of Richardson Technology Consulting and now Director of IT Strategy at The Students Commission of Canada, he blends hands-on systems administration, directory services, disaster recovery and enterprise storage with practical project management. He is an authorized partner of vendors like Microsoft, Cisco and Datto and applies industry best practices to bring enterprise-grade infrastructure to resource-constrained organizations. His background includes deep Mac deployment and security work plus infrastructure automation—illustrated by backend and DevOps contributions to a Lighthouse Labs finstagram tutorial where he fixed session security, dependency locking and Docker/Ruby environment issues. Colin’s career began in frontline service and retail roles, giving him an uncommon empathy for end users while designing resilient, maintainable systems. Based in Old Toronto, he combines technical rigor with a consultative mindset to translate complex IT needs into auditable, cost-effective solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Diploma, Multimedia Design and Production, Ontario College Diploma, Multimedia Design and Production at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (10)
sinatra10
ruby10
dockers9
devops9
back-end-development9
docker9
configuration-management8
activerecord8
environment-variables7
dependency-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/finstagram
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
tutorial for lighthouse labs web fundamentals
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 commit, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Colin focused on improving the backend infrastructure and dependencies of the Finstagram project, a tutorial for web fundamentals. Their contributions include resolving session security vulnerabilities, configuring environment variables, and locking dependency versions. They also made changes to the docker environment by upgrading the Ruby version and fixing docker image dependencies. Additionally, the user locked the ActiveRecord::Migration to a specific version.
fundamentalslighthouselighthouse-labs
Leadosaurus/Pizzly
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
The simplest, fastest way to integrate your app with an OAuth API 😋
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
apisimplestfastestoauth2integrate
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