Greg Richardson
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Richardson is a DX and AI lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently shaping developer experience and AI integrations at Supabase. He blends backend and database engineering expertise—designing Postgres schemas, vector extensions, and documentation-driven tooling—to power search and content indexing for a high-profile open-source Firebase alternative. Greg has hands-on experience integrating OpenAI embeddings and MDX parsing to make AI responses more useful and markdown-friendly, demonstrating a practical focus on developer-facing AI features. Based in the Calgary area, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a penchant for building delightful developer workflows, and maintains a public presence through projects and a YouTube channel exploring technical rabbit holes.
11 years of coding experience
University of Victoria
Github Skills (11)
mdx10
schema-design10
postgresql10
openai10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
apidoc5
api5
python3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
supabase/supabase
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:770 reviews, 456 PRs, 704 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg's commits focused on enhancements and configuration for the documentation generation process within the Supabase project. They implemented MDX parsing, and database setup, including adding a vector extension and defining page-section and page tables, suggesting a key role in structuring the database for search and content indexing. Furthermore, the user integrated an OpenAI model to generate text embeddings, indicating a focus on incorporating AI capabilities for improved content retrieval and knowledge representation. The user also added schema metadata and worked on making the AI responses markdown formatted.
realtimefirebase-databasewebsocketsfirestorefollow
chipmk/docker-mac-net-connect
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Connect directly to Docker-for-Mac containers via IP address 🐳 💻
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 27 commits in 6 months
containersipvpnnetworkingaddress
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