Dan Richards
Technical Lead at Vivanti Consulting
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Richards is a Technical Lead based in Sydney with a decade of experience building high-performance teams and end-to-end software systems focused on customer outcomes. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Typescript, React, NestJS, AWS) with strategic architecture and governance, advising senior stakeholders across complex enterprise environments. Dan has led product strategy that materially improved retention and engagement, designed a low-latency ML recommendation system serving millions, and remediated $800M to Australian consumers—demonstrating both product and regulatory impact. He excels in delivery under pressure, guiding teams through outages and large migrations with zero downtime. A former volunteer firefighter and Toastmasters president, he brings disciplined leadership, clear communication, and a bias for operational safety to engineering culture. Colocated as a Kiwi in Sydney, he thrives on solving real-world problems with pragmatic technology.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BCom / BSc Information Systems and Computer Science, BCom / BSc Information Systems and Computer Science at University of Auckland
English
Stackoverflow
3reputation
761reached
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2questions
Github Skills (155)
openvr10
asp-net-mvc10
dotnet9
nette9
unity3d9
asp-net-core9
ascii9
asp-net9
cart9
asp-net-core-mvc9
hololens9
dotnet-core9
shopping-cart9
entity-framework-core9
ascii-art9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DanCRichards/iEmergencyNZ
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Fully functional simulation of an Emergency Services communications app for deaf people.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
emergencycommunicationssimulationdeafemergency-services
DanCRichards/ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Automatically presents ASCII art to you when you open terminal and changes "Randomly"
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 6 months
changesartasciiascii-artrandomly
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