Summary
Richard Swift is a seasoned database developer with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade of recent professional experience delivering data warehouses, ETL/ELT solutions, and performance-tuned database systems. He is MCPD and MCTS certified and specializes in the Microsoft BI stack, SSIS/SSRS, and complex stored-procedure and query optimization across OLTP and OLAP environments. As an independent contractor and former consultant to organizations including Norfolk Southern, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and Blue Cross Blue Shield, he has led data migrations, designed replication processes from Oracle to SQL Server, and built reporting and automation solutions that replaced legacy tooling. Comfortable both leading teams and working directly with stakeholders, he blends pragmatic engineering with operational know-how—often stepping in for emergency development and rapid turnaround projects. Based in Marietta, Georgia, he pairs deep technical craft with a track record of delivering practical, auditable data solutions for diverse industries.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer