Richard Landers
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
Middletown, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Landers is a Lead Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience modernizing large-scale enterprise systems, currently driving full-stack teams at Disney to replatform legacy program scheduling into cloud-native microservices. He combines deep Java and backend expertise (Spring, JEE, Elasticsearch, Oracle, Kubernetes) with pragmatic front-end SPA experience to deliver customer-facing, production-grade workflows that integrate advertising and downstream ecosystems. Richard’s background includes transforming mission-critical government and insurance systems—porting and refactoring millions of lines of code, introducing test automation and CI practices, and implementing probabilistic data-matching algorithms for noisy legacy data. He’s comfortable bridging technical and business stakeholders, having led teams, designed secure REST APIs, and worked closely with translators to extend multilingual support. A pragmatic problem-solver with an MS in Computer Science, he brings a track record of turning brittle legacy applications into maintainable, auditable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Central Connecticut State UniversityMS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.7/4.0, MS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.7/4.0 at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (19)
digital-humanities10
text-analysis10
django-framework9
annotations9
java9
freebasic8
text-annotation7
portal5
angularjs5
twitter4
mobile4
social-share3
creative-commons3
angular3
mobile-development2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RichardLanders/biNu-Messager
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
xmppjabber-clientandroidconversationskotlin
praekeltfoundation/molo.commenting
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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