Richard Banks
Technical Lead at TradeSafe
Gauteng, South Africa
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SeniorRichard Banks is a technical lead and founder with 14 years of hands-on experience building web and hosting solutions from the ground up. He began as a self-taught web developer in high school, founded DataPoint in 2006, and launched Codaptive in 2012, combining client-facing product delivery with small-business operations. At TradeSafe he leads technical strategy and delivery, drawing on prior consultancy and leadership roles at Wunderman South Africa. Richard is a practical full-stack problem solver who balances architecture, deployment and day-to-day coding, and enjoys learning new technologies and gaming in his downtime. His background running two businesses gives him an uncommon blend of technical depth and operational discipline that helps teams ship reliable, customer-focused systems. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a jack-of-all-trades mindset to technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
status-page10
send-email9
laravel9
php9
bref8
aws-lambda8
aws-pinpoint8
lambda8
youtube-api8
faas7
youtube7
omnipay7
serverless7
infrastructure6
payment-gateway6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
richardnbanks/astro-loader-youtube
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
This package provides a YouTube video loader for the Astro Loader API
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 PRs, 133 pushes in 1 year 5 months
youtubeastroastro-loadertypescriptwithastro
tradesafe/woocommerce
Jan 2019 - Jun 2026
Payment gateway for WooCommerce
Contributions:36 PRs, 397 pushes, 37 branches in 7 years 6 months
paymentsecommercewordpresscredit-cardphp
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