Rick Watson
Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick Watson is a founder and strategic eCommerce advisor with 20+ years building and scaling marketplace and SaaS businesses, now leading RMW Commerce to help brands and investors separate hype from financially driven digital strategy. He has led product and engineering teams at ChannelAdvisor, Barnes & Noble, Merchantry (acquired for $30M), and Pitney Bowes, driving multi-billion GMV platforms, checkout and connector optimizations, and repeatable SaaS transformations. A former hands-on engineer turned CEO, Rick combines deep technical fluency with pragmatism in M&A due diligence, supply-chain strategy, and AI-enabled commerce. He publishes The Watson Weekly to 68,000+ executives and serves as an expert witness and advisor to major retailers and marketplaces. Based in New York with an electrical engineering background from Vanderbilt, he’s also a retired systems/network developer and a home machinist—evidence of a builder’s mindset that informs both product and operational decisions.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
esp321
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits in 4 months
bilalahmaddev/ESP32-projects-and-tutorials
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
ESP32 projects and tutorials
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
esp32
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