Richard Goldman

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ABOUT ME

Positive, constructive full-stack engineer and mentor

In my career spanning 20 years, I have been a full-stack engineer on websites like StarWars.com, Disney.com, TheRealReal.com, and Second Life, the original metaverse.

I've also been a paid mentor for the Immersive Full-Stack Bootcamp at Thinkful (Node.js, Mongo, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, React.js). I take great pride in the fact that several students of mine are now full-time web development professionals. (Note: Thinkful has been acquired by Chegg.)

I possess a proven track record in full stack development, app development, and mentoring. A proponent of best practices and web standards, I have led projects in various industries, including clean-tech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and entertainment. My knowledge spans a number of technologies, including back-ends such as Node, TypeScript, Express, Rails, and ASP.NET; front-end frameworks such as React, Redux Toolkit, and Vue; and cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated my ability to optimize and enhance applications, lead teams, mentor junior developers, and deliver successful projects on time.

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Joined December 2024

EXPERTISE

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Google Cloud Platform

2 years experience

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

pitch-or-perch

ReactJS/Flux fantasy baseball app that determines whether probable pitchers should start or sit.

JavaScript

stupid-hard-trivia

A stupid-hard Seinfeld trivia game, with Easy, Intermediate, and Stupid-Hard modes; timer bonus; 6 options per question; and leaderboards. 400 questions in all. Save-able and resumable. Share scores on Facebook and Twitter. Built using Next.js, json-server, React Hooks, Node, Mongo, and GraphQL..

JavaScript

Stack Overflow

5453 Reputation

EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer II, Data Engineering Team

PeopleConnect

2023-09-01-2024-09-01

Developed and maintained a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for an automated comment moderation system leveraging OpenAI GPT-4...

Developed and maintained a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for an automated comment moderation system leveraging OpenAI GPT-4 ChatCompletion. The system, built with Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub, supports user-generated content moderation features for Truthfinder.com and Intelius.com.
Designed and implemented a web-scraping solution using Python, BeautifulSoup, and Airflow/Astro, with scraped data stored in Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Bigtable. Conducted a thorough analysis of the target website and developed an efficient scraping strategy to optimize data extraction.
Developed new functionality for the Member Care Center tool, enhancing how customer service representatives view and manage customer profiles. Simplified the process of resetting locked OmniWatch accounts, a service for identity theft protection, by writing code across the server and React web client using TypeScript and GraphQL. Worked directly with the customer service team and other engineers to effect a reasonable solution.

Python

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Python

Node.js

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Google BigQuery

Big Data

React

Google cloud datastore

GraphQL

Google pubsub

Airflow

Beautifulsoup4

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Xendee Corporation

2019-06-01-2023-06-01

Led full-stack development on the Xendee clean-tech platform, specializing in React, Redux Toolkit Query, Web Components, Webpack...

Led full-stack development on the Xendee clean-tech platform, specializing in React, Redux Toolkit Query, Web Components, Webpack, TypeScript, NPM, Vue, Azure, Docker, C#, SQL Server, .NET, and Entity Framework.
Created a flexible and powerful JavaScript validation and number-formatting library for the numerous large forms across all Xendee products, consisting of thousands of inputs across several applications and optimized for several currencies around the world.
Successfully implemented complex charts and graphs, including time-series charts with hundreds of thousands of plot points, utilizing Highcharts Stock, Chart.js, and D3.
Developed a highly-customizable, load-building tool in Vue, enabling power engineers to easily define energy consumption for large buildings for each hour of each day over the course of a year.

Entity Framework

Azure

Entity Framework

Azure

TypeScript

npm

Docker

React

Web Components

JavaScript

Webpack

Microsoft SQL Server

.NET

Vue.js

Redux Toolkit

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Presidio

2018-03-01-2019-06-01

Led the development of a cybersecurity progress-tracking web app, enabling security professionals to load, analyze, and remediate...

Led the development of a cybersecurity progress-tracking web app, enabling security professionals to load, analyze, and remediate vulnerability scans and compliance frameworks, with features including historical analysis, dynamic interactive charting, and an ingestion system for bulk-loading large CSV scans (>500MB).
Built and maintained the full stack of the application, utilizing technologies such as .NET Core, C#, Entity Framework ORM, PostGreSQL, S3, CI (Jenkins), CodeCov, Docker, React/Redux, Create-React-App, Highcharts, Storyboard, Styled Components, Jest, Enzyme, MSTest, Selenium, and GitHub.
Managed deployments and releases of the application, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes and timely updates to the app.
Actively collaborated with the designer to review and validate project documents, served as primary point of contact for stakeholders, and led Scrum ceremonies: sprint meetings, sprint kickoff meetings, product demos, and retrospectives.

Entity Framework

PostgreSQL

Entity Framework

PostgreSQL

Selenium

GitHub

Jenkins

Highcharts

Minitest

Docker

React

Storyboards

Jest

Redux

Concourse CI

.NET Core

Enzyme

Styled-Components

PROJECTS

The Stupid-Hard Seinfeld Trivia ChallengeView Project

2021

Node.js

MongoDB

React

Node.js

MongoDB

React

JavaScript

Next.js