Richard Westmoreland
Owner at Westmoreland Creative
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRichard Westmoreland is a software engineer-turned-founder based in Zurich with eight years of engineering experience and recent entrepreneurial momentum as owner of Westmoreland Creative. He has progressed from aviation roles as a commercial pilot and flight instructor to hands-on software roles at FlightAware, DroneDeploy, and Going, where he became Lead Software Engineer. Richard brings operational discipline and safety-focused thinking from his aviation background to building reliable, production-grade systems. His experience spans both startups and established engineering teams, delivering features and leading small engineering groups through product cycles. Now leading his own studio, he combines technical craftsmanship with a user-centered creative approach to solve complex problems. Fluent in bridging domain expertise (aviation) with software, he often brings practical, real-world constraints into elegant technical solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
FAA Pilot Certificates Flight Instructor, FAA Pilot Certificates Flight Instructor at Aviator College of Aeronautical Science & TechnologyBachelor of Education (BEd) Music Teacher Education, Bachelor of Education (BEd) Music Teacher Education at University of Houston, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
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Github Skills (103)
api10
qualcomm10
mode-s10
javascript9
browser9
rest9
cms9
dashboard9
mls9
authentication9
ais9
backend9
sd-card9
threshold9
mono9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rawestmoreland/personal-site-2
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Personal Portfolio built with NestJS and TailwindCSS
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
rawestmoreland/sbb_strapi
Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
strapi version of small batch bru blog
Contributions:24 PRs, 241 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 5 months
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