Peter Richards
Student at Codingdojo
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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SeniorPeter Richards is a technology leader and entrepreneur with deep experience turning offline directory businesses into pioneering online products, including co-creating the first online Yellow Pages and co-founding Yellow Pages on the Internet (YPI). He rose from self-taught developer to CIO/CTO roles, leading production and ad operations that helped InfoSpace scale into a major internet company and drove the revenue-generating ad systems responsible for most of its income. Comfortable with both strategy and hands-on delivery, he has a track record of using off-the-shelf software in creative ways to build efficient teams and practical systems. Peter has founded and led startups, consulted across the Seattle area, and later shifted to mentoring and smaller internet ventures while prioritizing family life. An early innovator in directory publishing technology, he helped earn multiple industry awards and contributed to the historical shift to electronic Yellow Pages. Now based in the Greater Seattle Area, he blends entrepreneurial grit with operational expertise in productizing web services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
raspberry10
docker9
golang9
home-automation8
iot8
scroll7
raspberry-pi7
zelda6
65026
bittorrent6
torrent6
nuke6
apple25
airplay5
javascript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PeterRichardsWA/Loan-Demo-Ruby-Rails-Bootstrap
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
PeterRichardsWA/MEAN-Project
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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