Tom Richardson
SVP Regional Technology Lead, Central at RAPP
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Richardson is an experienced technology leader with 12 years of hands-on and executive experience building web and cloud solutions, currently serving as SVP Regional Technology Lead for the Central region at RAPP. He blends full-stack development skills—Node.js, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, C#, .NET and AWS—with enterprise content/search expertise in Lucene.net, Examine and Umbraco to deliver robust, production-ready systems. Tom progressed through technical and leadership roles at Ackerman McQueen from senior developer to EVP/Director of Digital, demonstrating a track record of scaling teams and digital platforms. He contributes to open-source front-end projects, notably stabilizing the Videogular2 HTML5 video player by fixing SSR, memory leak and HLS issues, reflecting a practical focus on reliability. Based in Dallas, he also founded a short-lived tech consultancy and MLS data service, showing entrepreneurial initiative and domain versatility. Collectedly, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strategic delivery to turn complex requirements into maintainable products.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (9)
html10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
html5-video10
360-video10
video-player10
typescript-types10
angular10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
videogular/videogular2
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
The HTML5 video player for Angular 2
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Videogular 2 video player. Their contributions included addressing server-side rendering issues, memory leaks in the vg-media component, and null reference errors within the fullscreen API. Additionally, the user corrected syntax errors and addressed issues related to HLS streaming, ensuring proper functionality in various scenarios.
angular-libraryhtml5-videoangular15html5-video-playervideo-player
kwarismian/hls-live-thumbnails
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
thumbnailshls-streamnodejsstreamvideo
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