Leonard Richardson
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorLeonard Richardson is a senior software developer in New York with 14 years of professional experience and a deep focus on server-side architecture, web services, and e-reading systems. He architects and builds production-grade systems—most recently leading architecture for a commercial ebook reader at Bookshop.org and previously delivering library-scale ebook platforms at NYPL. A prolific open-source maintainer, he created and continues to maintain Beautiful Soup, one of the most widely used Python packages, and he’s also the author of several influential O’Reilly books on REST and Ruby. Comfortable consulting with startups on API and e-reading architecture, he pairs practical problem-solving and teaching with strong writing skills to make complex systems accessible. Notably, his career blends product-focused engineering with long-term stewardship of tools and documentation that thousands of developers rely on.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (73)
python10
wrangler10
android-client10
data-model10
telegram-bot10
text-generation10
discord-bot10
pandas9
programming-language9
lti9
bots9
stub9
data-science9
data-structure9
data-analysis9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
leonardr/cce-python
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Python tools for processing data from the Catalog of Copyright Entries
Contributions:77 commits, 7 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
python
leonardr/botfriend
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Manage a lot of creative bots that post to a lot of different services.
Contributions:243 commits, 103 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
telegram-botlotbotdiscord-botcreative-bots
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