Richard Harcourt
Engineering Manager at KiwiFibre
Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRichard Harcourt is an engineering manager and entrepreneur based in Canterbury, New Zealand with 11 years of technical leadership experience and a long track record in precision manufacturing and product development. He runs Aotearoa Back Country Developments and RemoteEye, combining backcountry splitboard and ski product design with CNC services, prototyping (including exotic plastics and PEEK), and small-business CNC consulting. At KiwiFibre he applies his engineering management skills to larger-scale operations while retaining hands-on expertise from running Doosan 4-axis mills and supporting CNC tooling and routing work. His background spans telecommunications training, years of account support at Hewlett‑Packard, and deep practical know-how in bringing niche outdoor products to production through design review and manufacturing optimization. Notably, he pairs outdoors-focused product passion—own brands and boutique partnerships like Whitedot and Spark R&D—with practical shop-floor experience, enabling rapid iteration from prototype to sale. He excels at bridging customer-facing sales/support, bespoke fabrication, and scalable engineering processes.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Riccarton High SchoolRadio Technicians Certificate, Telecommunications Engineering, Radio Technicians Certificate, Telecommunications Engineering at Central Institute of Technology New Zealand
Github Skills (39)
gcode10
gcode-parser10
cnc10
sender10
controller9
java9
makers9
firmware9
parser9
3d-printing9
cnc-controller9
arduino9
esp329
atmel7
avr7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
splitn2/DrillSki
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
mikemag/MonkeyCAM
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
CAD/CAM software for ski and snowboard design and G-code program generation.
Contributions:54 comments, 4 issues in 3 years 2 months
cadskiopencascadecameda
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