Eric Richardson
Vice President Of Engineering at Shift
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Richardson is a seasoned engineering leader and VP of Engineering at Shift AI with over 17 years of experience building products that amplify human creativity and intelligence. He combines deep technical and architectural expertise with people-first leadership, having scaled teams and delivered digital products for Fortune-class clients across mobile, web, backend, and AI domains. A US Air Force veteran, Eric brings operational rigor and process optimization skills—once shaving 24 hours off F-15E inspection cycles—to software delivery and reliability. He’s an active coach and mentor who fosters a culture of feedback and continuous improvement while advising companies through his boutique consultancy, Speedshift. Known as a curious technologist and “dabbler of things,” he speaks, mentors, and builds to translate advanced AI capabilities into safe, pragmatic product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Community College of the Air ForceBS, Computer Information Science, 3.9, BS, Computer Information Science, 3.9 at ECPI University
English
Github Skills (40)
kotlin10
android-development10
android-library10
counter10
scheme10
inspect10
drawer9
debug9
hidden9
android9
background-service9
lisp9
pypi9
hyperion9
opcodes8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willowtreeapps/scratch
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 35 commits, 1 PR in 6 days
clearingdata-app
Richie97/WorstListEver
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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