Richard Downe
Co-Founder CTO at Nimblr Insurance
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard Downe is a builder, investor, and technology leader with 12+ years of experience turning complex domains—medicine, law, retail, and now insurance—into scalable, production-grade systems. As Co-Founder and CTO of Nimblr Insurance and former Software Development Manager at Amazon, he combines hands-on engineering with operational leadership for distributed systems that process millions of devices and customers across continents. He has a PhD in electrical and computer engineering and has repeatedly led cloud migrations and modern data platforms (Kafka, BigQuery, Redshift) to raise reliability, governance, and business impact. At Loblaw he drove personalization and search improvements that materially increased engagement and generated over $1M/month in incremental revenue, showing a rare mix of product focus and technical depth. Richard favors intellectually driven teams and hard technical problems, and he pairs academic rigor with startup grit—he once built a CFD-enabled image-processing pipeline for NIH-funded cardiovascular research. Based in Squamish, BC, he balances strategic leadership with continued hands-on hacking and occasional Dos Equis.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at SDA BocconiCongressional Page ProgramPhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of IowaBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Trinity College-Hartford
French, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
amazon-redshift9
amazon8
fnv7
boost6
heroku6
python6
django6
docker-image6
aws5
pluggable5
postgresql-database5
sql-parser4
packaging4
unstructured4
docker4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
casetext/flue
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 11 months
searchesfirebasepluggableelasticsearchsearch
casetext/flask-http-forwarding
Mar 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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