Summary
Richard Graves is a seasoned Technical Lead with 13 years of experience delivering large-scale, multi-million dollar solutions across public and private sectors from Clayton, North Carolina. He architects cloud-native systems, leads teams of 25+ developers, and has driven migrations of legacy mainframes to modern AWS and Azure platforms while establishing CI/CD and DevOps practices. His hands-on breadth spans .NET, Node.js, TypeScript, mobile MAUI apps, and integrations with government and payment systems, demonstrating both full-stack fluency and compliance-aware engineering. He has repeatedly improved developer productivity through onboarding, training, and automation, and has managed complex data integrations for education and licensing systems. Notably, he founded a rental marketplace startup early in his career, showing product instincts alongside technical leadership. He combines pragmatic architecture with people-first leadership to turn constrained government and enterprise requirements into maintainable, cost-effective platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage