Richard Fortune
Frontier Operations Engineer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRichard Fortune is a Frontier Operations Engineer and product leader with 13 years of hands-on experience shaping platforms, developer experience, and quality engineering across companies like Xero, Intercom, and Kiwibank. He specialises in designing the operational boundary between human judgement and AI capability—structuring verifiable, recoverable workflows where models and people collaborate effectively. His background spans quality engineering, product management, and developer experience, enabling teams to ship reliable, testable systems and iterate faster with smaller headcounts. Richard founded the Makers Organisation NZ, showing a long-standing commitment to community-driven learning and practical tinkering beyond corporate roles. Based in Wellington, he blends technical rigor from early SDET work at Microsoft with strategic product leadership to forecast capabilities and prioritise outcomes at the human–AI frontier.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Lannion IUT
French, Irish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
octoprint10
3d-printer9
snappy9
python8
xsd8
printer8
xero-api7
xero7
raspberry-pi7
soapui6
jekyll6
api6
facebook-open-graph6
cucumber6
groovy6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richardofortune/30daysoftesting
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
OpenSourceOpenSociety/setmefree
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
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