Rich Buggy
Engineering Manager at Bailey Nelson
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRich Buggy is an experienced engineering manager and AWS serverless architect based in Sydney with over 25 years of building web applications and 11 years in senior leadership roles. He currently leads an 8-person team delivering headless commerce and POS systems using React, Shopify/CommerceTools and a TypeScript middleware on AWS serverless platforms. A hands-on leader who still writes production code, he mentors teams, sets technical standards and architects scalable systems across frontend, backend and cloud. Rich is an active AWS Community Builder and open-source contributor to projects like AWS Amplify, where he improved auth flows and added cookie storage support. He also creates technical video courses on Node, TypeScript and AWS, blending developer education with product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting Accounting, Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting Accounting at Macquarie UniversitySt Andrew's Cathedral School
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
amazon-cognito10
authentication10
typescript10
user-authentication10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react8
react-router6
nodejs6
pwapp6
serverless-framework6
react-router-dom6
aws-lambda6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-js
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 22 PRs, 131 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the JavaScript codebase by adding type information, fixing broken tests, and adding support for cookie storage and developer authenticated strategies. They also made significant changes to the authentication flow, refactoring the sign-in process to handle custom authentication. Additionally, they updated import syntax across files.
pwaamazon-cognitoawsaws-mobilestorage
buggy/generator-shopify-react-app
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 1 PR, 132 pushes in 1 year 5 months
reactshopify-appyeomanyeoman-generatorembedded
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