Rich Harper
Application Development Lead
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Harper is an application development leader with 25+ years of experience building and managing both custom and commercial software, currently leading enterprise applications for highway bridge inspections at Washington State DOT. He blends hands-on architecture and implementation skills with product and project management, having overseen continuous-release cycles across five products at an ISV and led cross-functional QA and release teams. A GIS and infrastructure specialist by background, he has repeatedly translated complex civil engineering and geospatial requirements into practical, scalable systems used at departmental and interagency scales. Rich is comfortable experimenting with a wide variety of technologies and applying service-oriented and enterprise architecture patterns where they make sense. Based in Olympia, WA, he pairs deep public-sector domain knowledge with a founder’s perspective from two decades managing and growing a GIS software business. Colleagues rely on him to balance technical rigor, pragmatic delivery, and long-term architectural thinking.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at San Diego State University
Github Skills (2)
accessibility2
alpaca1
Github contributions (2)
WSDOT-GIS/Alpaca
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
accessibilityplanninga11yalpaca
WSDOT-GIS/arcgis-print-ui
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 tags in 19 days
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