Summary
Richard Hodsdon is a hands-on Technical Services Manager with 9 years of experience building and operating full-stack web systems from browser to database. He has deep expertise across performance, mobile, frontend and backend engineering, having built RESTful APIs, Apache Solr search, and large-scale Angular and .NET applications used by millions. Comfortable across infrastructure and devops, he administers Linux/Windows servers, AWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, IAM) and multiple databases (MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB) and has led migrations between them. Previously a staff/senior engineer at Granify and senior developer at Derivco, he blends data-driven optimization and real-time experimentation with production-grade engineering. Based in Edmonton, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a knack for squeezing extra revenue and performance out of complex web platforms.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Durban University of Technology
English, Chinese, Afrikaans