Richard Abercrombie
Lead Developer at Palmetto GBA
West Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Abercrombie is a Lead Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems, database migrations, and integration layers across logistics and healthcare domains. He moved from OCR-driven digital humanities projects and IT support at USC to solving complex database/OS migration challenges at Southeastern Freight Lines, where he built developer tools, automated reporting, and socket-based adapters to bridge legacy indexing software with modern Linux servers. Currently at Palmetto GBA he architects and implements FHIR-compliant REST APIs and end-to-end data ingestion pipelines, integrating multiple third-party technologies for interoperability. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he combines systems-level thinking with practical engineering—often creating bespoke middleware to translate between old and new platforms—while maintaining a focus on standards-based, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of South Carolina
Github Skills (13)
minimum7
continuous-integration7
cd4
continuous-delivery4
python3
machine-learning3
facial-expression-recognition3
netbox2
seccomp2
perl2
sandbox2
rust1
multiplayer1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liltimtim/cs350_project
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
facial-expression-recognitionpythonexpression-recognitionrecognitionmachine-learning
rlabercrombie/purplecross
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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