Rick Destree
Sr Engineering Manager at Tithe.ly
Greeley, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Destree is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of professional experience leading SaaS teams that amplify the global impact of the Church, currently heading engineering at Tithe.ly from Greeley, Colorado. He combines full-stack fluency—React, Laravel, Node, PHP, Drupal—with cloud-native operations like Kubernetes to deliver reliable, scalable products. Known for hands-on leadership, he has progressed from freelance and web-development roles into management at Breeze and Tithe.ly, keeping close to code and architecture. Rick brings a mathematician’s precision from a BA in Mathematics to systems design and performance tuning. Beyond production systems he pursues creative side projects—PhaserJS game development and Slack bots—that inform his pragmatic, user-focused approach. He also draws and ships small creative experiments on GitHub, reflecting a designer-developer blend that helps teams move quickly from concept to polished release.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Northern Colorado
Github Skills (25)
linux8
windows8
javascript8
electron7
text-editor7
minecraft7
react-big-calendar7
macos7
launcher6
editor6
laravel4
react4
php3
react-ui-kit3
cpp3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drinkdecaf/GMDemo
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes in 9 days
BreezeChMS/coding-exercise-api-react-v2
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Full Stack Engineer (Laravel & React) - Coding Exercise
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
reactfull-stackphplaravel-reactfull-stack-engineer
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