Richard Key
Long Term Substitute Teacher at Paranoid Ferret Productions
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Key is a versatile web developer-turned-educator with 14 years of professional experience blending hands-on engineering and technical instruction. He co-founded and built key front-end and platform pieces at Modulus, led developer training and support, and later translated that product expertise into global virtual classrooms for companies like Galvanize. Richard combines startup grit—building an HTML5 graphics engine and real-time Node.js apps—with formal curriculum design and coaching, helping teams adopt agile practices and modern JavaScript tooling. Now based in Tucson, he works as a substitute teacher while still running Paranoid Ferret Productions, reflecting a shift toward mentoring without giving up coding. His career shows a rare mix of entrepreneurial product experience and polished pedagogy, comfortable switching between midnight global teaching schedules and hands-on development. He’s driven by the same childhood fascination with digital creation that led him to both launch platforms and inspire the next generation of developers.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Video Game Programming, Bachelor's of Science Video Game Programming at University of Advancing Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
nodejs-application10
command-line-interface10
gulp10
gulp-plugin10
javascript-game9
dac9
stripe9
spi9
spawn9
bluetooth9
pwm9
i2c9
gpio9
javascript-game-engine9
stripe-api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
XervoIO/pulse
Sep 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:194 commits in 1 year 5 months
gamejavascriptjavascript-game-enginegame-developmenthtml5
TotallyRadRichard/minitext
Mar 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
javascript
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