Richard Harrison
Co-founder & Lead Developer at Ark Software / Zaretto
Bergerac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolRichard Harrison is a veteran software engineer and co-founder with over four decades of hands-on individual-contributor experience, specialising in high-fidelity simulation, avionics, and resilient backend systems. Based in France, he leads AviaStorm’s Tornado module for DCS World while maintaining long-running products like ChemData (31+ years) and BrightServe telecom and telemedical platforms, all built for operational reliability and multilingual deployment. A prolific FlightGear core contributor and author of the cross-language Emesary notification framework (widely reused and published on NuGet with 274k+ downloads), he balances deep systems work in C/C++/C#/Rust with practical product delivery. His defence and research engagements include consulting for Johns Hopkins APL on DARPA ACE, NASA-invited presentations, and NDA contracts delivering high-fidelity F-16 and autonomous BVR simulation environments. Notable for reviving and emulating legacy systems (SwiftIOS) and designing high-throughput multi-tenant energy platforms, he combines rare domain expertise in simulation, avionics, and safety-critical software with a pragmatic engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Steyning Grammar SchoolDurrington Technical College
English, French
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Github Skills (53)
aviation10
mysql10
matlab10
openscenegraph10
fmi10
flight-simulation10
aircraft10
3d-models10
entity-framework10
co-simulation10
opengl-es10
modeling10
aerodynamics10
aerospace10
geometry9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Zaretto/Supermarine-Swift
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
Supermarine Swift (based on FGUK version) with full VSPAERO generated JSBSim aero model
Contributions:96 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
Zaretto/Emesary
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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