Richard B
Co-Founder at Version 2 Inc.
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard B is a veteran software founder and engineer with 17 years building production systems, developer teams, and consulting practices from Jersey City. As Co-Founder of Version2 and prior startups like SmartCode and Rhino Recruiters, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded consulting to deliver pragmatic, high-quality software for financial, insurance, and enterprise clients. His background spans full-stack J2EE architecture, system migrations, and search/data-correlation work—Rhino’s large-scale profile crawler and social graphing is a notable example of applying algorithmic and image-analysis techniques to real-world data problems. An active coder who says “programming is a team sport for antisocial people,” he has contributed to open-source projects like SiteMesh by improving Ant task file handling and HTTP request filtering. Passionate about Bitcoin, LLMs, and the human side of technology, he’s selective about projects and chooses work that keeps his mind sharp rather than out of necessity.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Scrum Training
Github Skills (7)
javas10
ant10
java10
webapp9
web-application9
web-development9
html7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sitemesh/sitemesh3
Apr 2009 - Sep 2009
SiteMesh 3: Official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard focused on enhancing the SiteMesh Ant Task, a utility for offline website generation. Their contributions included adding support for the `sitemeshfileset` node, enabling more flexible file inclusion and decorator application. Furthermore, the user implemented header filtering functionality in the `HttpServletRequestFilterable` class, enhancing the decorator's ability to handle HTTP requests correctly. They also updated the Ant Task documentation to describe the changes.
sitemesh
rburton/teamcollab
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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