Rick Yost
Owner at Yost Group LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRick Yost is a multidisciplinary technology leader and founder with eight years of software and program management experience and a long career delivering complex government and commercial programs. He currently leads Yost Group LLC, providing R&D and technology modernization support to the Defense Logistics Agency, and has a track record scaling operations and product delivery at organizations from PayPal and Google Cloud Security to innovative hardware firms like Sharrow Marine. Equally comfortable with code (HTML, JavaScript, Python, SQL, MEAN, Swift) and program leadership, he blends hands-on engineering, product management, and operational rigor to drive cost, efficiency, and accountability improvements. A former Army Major and Ranger-qualified leader, he pairs disciplined, mission-oriented leadership with startup grit—co-founding AI-driven ventures and negotiating M&A and government contracts across the defense and commercial sectors. Notably, he has led large geographically distributed teams and shipped risk- and security-focused programs that impacted global payment volumes and defense logistics.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Development Software Engineering, Full Stack Development Software Engineering at Coding DojoDoctor of Law - JD Corporate + Government Contracts Law, Doctor of Law - JD Corporate + Government Contracts Law at American University Washington College of LawMaster of Business Administration - MBA Decision + Information Sciences, Master of Business Administration - MBA Decision + Information Sciences at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessMaster of Arts - MA Computer Resources + Information Management, Master of Arts - MA Computer Resources + Information Management at Webster UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration and Management General at University of South DakotaSmall Unit Tactics and Leadership, Small Unit Tactics and Leadership at US Army Ranger School
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Github Skills (10)
operation8
react7
css7
postcss7
cypress7
storybook5
javascript5
nextjs5
typescript4
twitter-api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rlyost/AboutPython_CSS_assignment
Feb 2018 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
rlyost/DeadReckoningApp_swift
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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