Richard Scotten
Founder at Propcart
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Scotten is a founder and seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building niche SaaS and marketplace products, best known for creating Propcart — ecommerce, rental tracking, and billing software tailored to prop houses, fabricators, and galleries. He combines hands-on engineering (TypeScript/React/Redux work in open-source projects) with deep domain immersion, having lived in prop houses to design workflows that actually match operations. Previously CTO at ScaleLab, he led a team delivering a web platform that processed millions in monthly payouts and handled large-scale data, fraud detection, and ML-driven workflows. His background in physics and early research coding informs a data-driven, analytical approach to product design and engineering. Colleagues describe him as a practical builder who turns messy, real-world problems into focused software solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics Mathematics at Ohio Wesleyan University
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
65reputation
19kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
type-definition10
firebase10
redux10
typescript-types10
react10
postman6
google-cloud-firestore6
react-virtualized6
google-cloud-platform6
firebase-hosting6
rest6
firebase-tools6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prescottprue/react-redux-firebase
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Redux bindings for Firebase. Includes React Hooks and Higher Order Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 28 PRs, 44 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on type definition updates within the project. Their commits involved modifying the TypeScript definition files (`.d.ts`) to ensure accurate typing for various components and functionalities. These updates appear to enhance the type safety and developer experience within the React-Redux-Firebase project by aligning types with the underlying Firebase and Redux libraries. The user also updated function signatures and resolved bugs related to type inconsistencies.
reactredux-thunkredux-firebasefirebasereact-hooks
rscotten/react-redux-firebase
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Redux bindings for Firebase. Includes Higher Order Component for use with React.
Contributions:20 PRs, 40 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
reactfirebasereduxhigher-order-componenthigher-order
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