Richard Ash
Swift Algorithm Club Co-Maintainer at Kodeco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Ash is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and iOS software from startups to high-growth platforms in San Francisco. As Co-Maintainer of Kodeco's Swift Algorithm Club, he contributes Swift implementations of classic algorithms (including a Karatsuba multiplication implementation and Swift 3 modernizations) that help the community learn performant data structures. He has held senior engineering roles and co-founded product-driven startups, bringing both hands-on implementation skills and product intuition from The Apex App and FleetSocial to his staff role at CoinList. His background in economics and physics (UC Davis, with study at LSE) gives him a quantitative lens for solving algorithmic and systems problems. He’s comfortable moving between code, teaching, and leadership—having taught immersive iOS courses and presented financial research early in his career—so he blends mentorship with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a practical problem-solver who contributes useful open-source educational tools while shipping production-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts with High Honors & Bachelor of Science, Economics & Physics, Bachelor of Arts with High Honors & Bachelor of Science, Economics & Physics at University of California, DavisLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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Github Skills (11)
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
data-structure10
uinavigationcontroller6
cabasicanimation6
ios6
uifont6
cifilter6
xlpagertabstrip6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Sep 2016 - May 2021
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 commits, 102 PRs, 97 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard's primary focus was on implementing and improving algorithms and data structures within the Swift-based repository. They initiated the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm and added its implementation. Furthermore, the user updated the code to Swift 3 syntax and corrected a typo in the Karatsuba algorithm. They also contributed to merging the remote-tracking branch to incorporate upstream changes.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
richard-ash/notes
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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