Summary
Sharod Richardson is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening LAMP/Node.js systems, databases, and infrastructure for PCI-sensitive environments. Based in Tallahassee, he blends development (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Node) with deep ops skills—MySQL/MariaDB administration, HAproxy/Nginx/Varnish caching, and automated deployments using Bash, Ansible, and containers. He’s repeatedly owned end-to-end reliability work: replication and disaster recovery, performance tuning, monitoring (Nagios/ELK), and SSL/PCI compliance across startups and healthcare/telephony platforms. Known for pragmatic automation, he programs cron-driven ETL, scraping and security tooling, and writes headless-browser tests to keep production stable. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy legacy stacks into auditable, production-ready systems while keeping feature delivery moving.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer