David Richard

An office management application for insurance agencies. Some of the application features include reporting, employee tracking, time tracking, compensation planning, and payroll.

Trakability is a PHP-backed application with Vue.js and React apps for various features. Trakability uses Node.js microservices to handle background tasks from its queue.

I built the first version of Trakability as an MVP with my cofounder in about 1 month. The MVP demo gathered hundreds of beta users and an outside investor within a few months. Working on Trakability as CTO and lead developer, the application has grown to over 1,200 users and keeps track of 100,000+ insurance policies.

I have also managed the development team as it has grown, developing best practices and leading my company successfully through State Farm certification, which is similar to SOC2.

A Chrome extension that serves the eCommerce community, primarily Amazon sellers. HowMany helps customers do product research and make buying and pricing decisions by focusing on opposition research.

HowMany is a Chrome extension powered by PHP and Node.js microservices running on a rabbitMQ queue. HowMany also has a React-powered admin interface and a Vue.js-powered Customer portal.

I picked up this project from another developer and became the lead developer for several years. Some of the technical challenges included scaling computationally-intense, real-time tasks, creating a robust API, and evolving a legacy database to more modern standards.

I reduced the load time for the API's intensive calls from around one min (yes a whole minute) to around two seconds. I also implemented dozens of new features resulting in a user growth rate of nearly 100%.

I also improved the system uptime to around 98%. It's worth noting this application using web scraping techniques (with permission) so that is unheard of in this space.

A Chrome extension that helps Facebook group managers organize their users for marketing follow-ups. GroupsPro is built in Angular for the front end and uses a PHP back end. Node.js microservices handle some of the data-intensive tasks.

I took over the project from previous development. The application was not working due to changes in Facebook's APIs.

I rebuilt the extension's API code, completely eliminating the constant issues with Facebook changing APIs. I also retooled the codebase to make adding new integrations with third-party APIs easier. Adding a new API went from about 10 hours to about 30 minutes. We have tripled the number of integrations since this change.

GroupsPro has gone on to be featured on AppSumo and now boasts over 110,000 members.

File Genius is a file-sharing and data storage application targeting enterprise organizations. It is similar to Dropbox.

File Genius is a React front end with a PHP back end and Node.js microservices for data cleanup.

I started on as a developer with File Genius and quickly moved up to managing the feature team. In my time there we rebuilt the dev environment instructions – which took roughly 10 hours to set up – into a Docker container that can be brought up in seconds. This reduced new employee onboarding significantly.
I also oversaw the transition from a plain JavaScript front end to React.

A React and Node.js-based application to manage HR operations. I worked as a full-stack engineer, primarily developing improvements to the role based authorization system. I also worked quite a bit improving the DevOps experience.