Dylan Richards is a founder and senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building web and software products and a track record of turning technical education into tangible outcomes. As Co-Founder & CTO of Elm Studio and a recent senior engineer at RubiconMD and Morgan & Morgan, he blends hands-on full‑stack development with product-minded leadership across startups and larger organizations like Amazon and The RealReal. He previously founded Ruby on Richards, an accelerated online coding school that took novices to full‑stack builders in eight weeks, and has taught as a lead instructor at New York Code + Design Academy. Comfortable shipping both consumer-facing and enterprise systems, Dylan bridges technical craftsmanship with instructional design—recently exploring the intersection of photography and tech at Escalate. He pairs formal study in entrepreneurship and computer science with real-world experience scaling teams and curricula, bringing an educator’s clarity to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
German Language + Literature, German Language + Literature at University of Zurich
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School Online
Computer Science + Finance, Computer Science + Finance at University of Connecticut
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