Rick Lamoreaux
Independent Fractional CTO at Self-employed
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRick Lamoreaux is an independent fractional CTO and pragmatic engineering leader with over 10 years of experience designing and shipping scalable SaaS and web products from MVP to acquisition. He thrives on solving hard technical problems—balancing elegant small-scale algorithms with big-picture architectures that enable rapid core delivery and long-term growth. A technology-agnostic builder with a strong preference for open stacks, Rick has led full engineering organizations, modernized legacy systems, and driven cloud migrations and sharded databases to prepare products for scale. He pairs hands-on development (Node/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React) with product-minded leadership, turning business ideas into profitable roadmaps and shipping features that improve user outcomes. In recent roles he’s focused on pragmatic AI integration and overcoming LLM prompt engineering limits to maintain consistency in large-scale creative workflows. Based in Issaquah, WA, he combines startup CTO experience with a track record of operationalizing engineering teams through acquisitions.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
javascript10
html10
mobile-first10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
responsive10
grunt-task9
notebook9
javascript-framework9
jupyter9
jupyter-notebook9
react-component8
twitter8
decode8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rlamorea/recipe-hub
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Personal project to organize private recipe documents in Google Docs into something useful, and do a bunch of technology/process experiments.
Contributions:20 PRs, 15 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 4 months
organizegoogle-docsrecipe
rlamorea/weBASIC
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
A BASIC interpreter/live OS that is both retro and modern
Contributions:70 PRs, 104 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
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