Rick Takes
Vice President Of Engineering at KitBash3D
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRick Takes is a results-driven engineering executive with 11 years of experience scaling teams and platforms from early-stage startups to high-growth SaaS, currently serving as VP of Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has repeatedly grown teams from single digits to 50–100+ engineers while maintaining high retention and morale, and led migrations of millions of storefronts to composable architectures. Known for blending engineering leadership with financial rigor, Rick has driven double-digit improvements in gross margin through FinOps and vendor negotiations that realized millions in savings. He led Netlify’s largest engineering pillar, managing directors, 60 reports, M&A integrations, and platform execution end-to-end. A former founder and fractional CTO, he pairs hands-on product and architecture expertise with cross-functional collaboration across product, design, finance and operations. Outside core roles he mentors women entering tech, reflecting a sustained commitment to inclusive hiring and people-first culture.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaAdvanced Software Engineering Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
English, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
render7
html6
chrome6
react6
ecmascript6
sequelizejs6
extendscript6
chrome-extension6
jquery6
redux6
javascript6
mysql6
emberjs5
browser5
fastclick5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Street-Meet/streetmeet
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:124 commits, 50 PRs, 21 pushes in 29 days
pythonreactorthesisthesis-projecthack-reactor
RTakes/streetmeet
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 12 days
pythonreactorthesisthesis-projecthack-reactor
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