Richie Thomas
Director Of Operations
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichie Thomas is an operations leader with a decade of experience applying implementation science and qualitative research to scale mission-driven services across government, tribal, and private sectors. As Director of Operations at Assist World, he blends evidence-based program evaluation with relational leadership to improve virtual assistant matching, onboarding, and retention for global, culturally diverse teams. Previously he translated research into measurable e-commerce outcomes—driving major efficiency gains, proprietary tooling, and multimillion-dollar revenue lift as Director of Operations at Smart Wholesale. Richie also maintains active research partnerships at the University of Oregon, where his evaluations informed statewide prevention and education initiatives for rural and Native communities. A hands-on contributor to open source (notably performance tweaks to the widely used Homebrew package manager), he pairs technical attention to detail with a habit of listening first. He is based in Portland and known for turning complex, context-sensitive problems into evolving systems that prioritize people as much as performance.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
homebrew10
package-manager10
macos8
vocabulary6
junit6
terminology6
shim6
database-schema6
intellij-idea6
ruby-on-rails6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 22 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Richie contributed to the Homebrew package manager by optimizing its core functionalities. They focused on improving dependency checking by memoizing recursive calls, leading to performance gains. Additionally, the user addressed style warnings and refined file filtering, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintainability within the project's codebase, primarily written in Ruby. These changes reflect efforts to improve the performance and consistency of the Homebrew tool.
package-managerhomebrewrubymacosbrew
richiethomas/richiethomas.github.io
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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