Summary
Richard Huth is a product-focused engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable web and blockchain products across agencies, startups, and scale-ups. He has been an early technical hire and team lead at fast-growing fintechs and adtech companies, and co-founded The DeFi Lab where he single-handedly delivered Ethereum and Cardano MVPs showcased at Web Summit. Currently based in Amsterdam, he splits his time between contract full‑stack work at type-safe Studio and driving LLM ops tooling as a founding engineer at LangWatch. Richard combines product intuition with deep implementation experience—having built high-throughput recommendation systems, payment and customer-acquisition platforms, and end-to-end observability tooling. He brings entrepreneurial grit from multiple accelerator experiences and a mechanical engineering background that informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to software.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Mechanical Engineering, Bsc Mechanical Engineering at University of Cape Town
Business Management & Entrepreneurship, Business Management & Entrepreneurship at IIE Varsity College
English, Afrikaans