Richard Sargent
Business Development Manager at GemTalk Systems
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Sargent is a seasoned software architect and business development manager with over three decades of experience building high-quality systems and 12 years in his current professional timeline. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he blends hands-on development, product evangelism, and client-facing consulting—most recently promoting GemStone/S and MagLev (a scalable Ruby) while running his own firm, 5x5 Computing Solutions. He has a track record rescuing stalled projects, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex financial and enterprise systems for clients including UBS, GEICO, and Bank of Montreal. Comfortable across languages and platforms since the early 1980s, he pairs deep technical craft in architecture and design with practical requirements and mentoring skills. An alumnus of the University of Waterloo, he brings a pragmatic, clarity-first approach (true to his 5x5 namesake) to turning ambiguous business needs into maintainable software.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ajax High SchoolBachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (46)
continuation10
smalltalk10
bootstrap10
object-oriented-programming10
pharo10
windows9
notepad9
cpp8
file-tree8
editor8
64-bit8
gemstone8
dll8
csharp7
wpf7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rjsargent/gsDevKitHome
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:16 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
development-kit64-bitgemstonerubybit
GsDevKit/GsBasePharoCompatibility
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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