Summary
Richard Bucker is a seasoned system architect with 14+ years of hands-on experience building everything from firmware and device drivers to full-stack web services, payment gateways, and POS platforms. He blends deep technical breadth—Python, Go, Erlang, Linux, Postgres, Redis, ZeroMQ—with pragmatic product and business sensibilities, having led PCI‑DSS audits, acquirer certifications, and high‑availability deployments. Richard has driven greenfield platforms, blockchain and unikernel experiments, and operational tooling at companies and his own consultancy, regularly stepping into project management, hiring, and investor-facing roles. His background includes mission‑critical payments work for major brands and bespoke telephony, VOIP arbitrage, and document management systems, reflecting an ability to move between hardware, embedded stacks, and cloud services. Notably, he treats architecture as survivability engineering—prioritizing practical, auditable outcomes over theoretical perfection—and continuously studies new languages and orchestration approaches. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he excels at turning complex compliance and reliability requirements into production-ready, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer