Summary
Richard Garcia is a software engineering lead based in Austin with eight years of experience building full-stack systems and guiding engineering teams at companies from startups to Apple and Napster. He blends hands-on backend and frontend expertise—Java, TypeScript, React, and distributed systems—with product-focused architecture and team leadership, having led work on high-availability internal systems at Apple and music NFT platforms at Catalog. Passionate about the intersection of Web3 and music, he has shipped integrations with Zora and migrated complex on-chain tooling while ensuring backward compatibility for live marketplaces. Colleagues rely on him for system architecture, db design, and removing blockers, and he pairs that operational leadership with active coding and migration work. An interesting thread across his career is moving legacy systems forward—rewriting servers, migrating data and APIs, and modernizing stacks to support scale and new business models.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio