Rich Sands
Principal And Founder at RSands Consulting, LLC
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Sands is a seasoned product and community leader with over a decade guiding developer engagement, open source strategy, and product marketing for platform software. He led the product and marketing effort behind Sun’s landmark OpenJDK open-sourcing and later ran product and community strategy for Black Duck’s Ohloh analytics directory, giving him rare experience at the intersection of developer relations and business strategy. As founder of RSands Consulting he advises teams on converting platform adoption into revenue, combining competitive intelligence, go-to-market execution, and agile product practices. Comfortable with global cross-functional teams, he’s also an active volunteer leader at Western Reserve Academy, applying his boardroom strategic skills to education. Known for translating technical ecosystems into measurable business outcomes, he blends a background in computer science with an MBA to bridge engineering, marketing, and partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
HS, HS at Western Reserve AcademyBA, Computer Science, Classics, BA, Computer Science, Classics at Brown UniversityMBA, Business, MBA, Business at Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Github Skills (11)
authentication10
addon6
wordpress-plugin5
wordpress5
passwordless4
nginx3
proxy3
networking3
home-assistant3
reverse-proxy2
home-manager1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
richsands/HomeAssistant-Config
Feb 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
richsands/mytestrepo
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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