Richard Hutta is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Prague, currently working as a self-employed developer while holding a senior engineering role at Electrious. He has deep front-end expertise from building a large HTML5 poker client at Rhinobit and complements that with back-end contributions to open-source projects like the TypeScript Instagram private API SDK. Richard focuses on practical improvements—data parsing with big integers, environment-variable handling for secrets, and robust web request testing—demonstrating attention to reliability and security. Comfortable across the stack, he combines hands-on coding with product-oriented thinking to ship features and harden integrations. Colleagues know him for quietly improving developer ergonomics and adding pragmatic test coverage where it matters.
NodeJS Instagram private API SDK. Written in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:286 commits, 93 PRs, 240 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on modifying and expanding the functionality of the Instagram private API SDK. Their contributions included adding features like a self-liked feed, along with improvements to data parsing using big integers. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to incorporate environment variables for sensitive information, and also implemented and tested web request functionality. The user also implemented several test cases in the proxy-client v1 directory.
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 3 tags in 4 days
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