Richard Stanford
Director at findhelp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Stanford is a seasoned technology leader and director with 13+ years of experience building and scaling high-availability distributed systems for payments, logistics, and social care platforms. He has founded multiple companies and led engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade SaaS trusted by national brands such as the American Heart Association, Staples, and the Chicago Marathon. Known for marrying lean, agile delivery with operational rigor, he routinely drives design-to-launch cycles as short as three weeks while maintaining continuous uptime and PCI/SSAE compliance. At findhelp he architects core platform frameworks and internal developer tooling that accelerate integrations and predictable feature expansion across a growing product footprint. Comfortable at both the boardroom and code level, he frequently bridges investor/stakeholder strategy with hands-on optimizations and team training. Based in Austin, he’s quietly pragmatic: he prioritizes “it works first time, every time” reliability over flashy solutions.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (43)
self-contained10
outbound10
spreedly10
bootstrap9
java9
html8
sdk8
adminlte8
css8
responsive8
dashboard8
amazon8
admin8
nodejs7
networking7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rjstanford/protea-http
Jan 2015 - Oct 2022
Small self-contained utility library for making outbound network connections
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 7 years 9 months
self-containedoutboundnetworkingconnectionsnetwork
rjstanford/spreedly-java
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
Java SDK for use with the Spreedly PCI-compliant vaulting service.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 34 commits in 4 years 11 months
javaspreedly
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