Richard Garand
Senior Director Of Engineering at Constant Contact
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Garand is a Senior Director of Engineering with over 25 years in technology and a decade-plus of senior leadership driving engineering organizations across MarTech, Education, Health, and Entertainment. He combines hands-on systems and API architecture experience with strategic planning, budgetary oversight, and risk management to turn complex business problems into measurable results. At Constant Contact he leads cross-functional teams delivering billing, identity, email automation, and international compliance solutions while reducing costs through process and technology changes. His background spans enterprise analytics, large-scale event systems, and academic research portals—where he built a React-based search portal for 115M museum specimens—demonstrating comfort across both product and infrastructure domains. Known for fostering transparent, innovative cultures, he excels at bridging technical teams and executives to align engineering with business outcomes. Based in Gainesville, Florida, he pairs deep operational rigor with a pragmatic emphasis on ROI and customer-centric engineering.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration at University of Florida
Github Skills (11)
open-source10
api10
lists10
portal9
api-rest9
search-engine7
backend2
data-api2
web-development1
indexing1
data-ingestion1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iDigBio/idb-portal
Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
iDigBio search portal
Contributions:207 commits, 1 PR, 120 pushes in 3 years 2 months
search-enginesearchportal
rjgarand/public-apis
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
free-apisapiweb-developmentcollective
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