Richard Beauchamp is a Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building resilient, high-throughput backend systems and multi-tenant SaaS platforms. As the sole backend engineer at Ziptility, he has shipped 400 production releases in four years and architected an event-driven, sub-100ms sync system that serves 200+ water utilities and municipalities. He champions AI-augmented engineering—integrating Claude, Codex, and Gemini into daily workflows since 2023—to extend the productivity of a small team and prepare for AGI benchmarks like the ARC Prize. Creator of RxDBDotNet and ClearFlow, Richard combines deep technical craft in .NET, GraphQL, and event-driven architectures with pragmatic infrastructure cost savings and database tuning that produced 40–60% API improvements. Calm under pressure, emotionally intelligent, and a thoughtful mentor, he treats engineering as a force for good while bringing an understated sense of humor to high-stakes problems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree with honors, Bachelor's degree with honors at California State University, Fullerton
Contributions:3 releases, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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Richard Beauchamp - Principal Software Engineer at Ziptility