Bryan Richter

DevOps Freelancer May 2022–present Helsinki

Supported the Haskell programming language ecosystem as a member of the GHC compiler team and infrastructure working group.
Organizationally, I bridged disconnected teams with direct participation and weekly public reports. I also improved ecosystem resiliency and service continuity with better documentation and processes.
Technologically, I made several advances: (1) I built and operated a service that drastically improved CI for the compiler by mitigating spurious failures. Pipelines that needed to be manually restarted multiple times now finish reliably. (2) I built and operated deployment workflows for ecosystem services such as Stackage. (3) I indepedently planned and executed service migrations for various critical services.

Software Team Lead and Senior Developer November 2018–May 2022 RELEX Solutions Helsinki

Applied DevOps principles within a large development group making a major infrastructure migration.
As team lead (from October 2020), I assisted the team through a department restructuring, influencing the future direction of the department and minimizing churn within the team.
As a developer, I designed and prototyped a new deployment tool to support "Scale Out", the initiative that expanded the company's optimization engine into a clustered application.

Lead Developer February 2015–present Snowdrift.coop

Led the development of a new platform for sustainable funding of public goods.
Collaborated with team leadership on developing governance and structure to maximize openness and effectiveness.
Along with a major code rewrite, I implemented continuous integration and push-button deployments.

March 2010–November 2013 Travel Sabbatical North America and Europe

Gained new strategic perspectives by connecting with diverse communities: travelers, social activists, sailors, and technologists.
Solidified my independent work ethic as I traveled solo through North America and Europe on a bicycle.

Sr. Software Engineer November 2007–March 2010 Thomson Reuters (formerly Starmine—acquired 2008) San Francisco

Optimized MySQL queries and reduced a week-long data pipeline to a couple hours.
Made the first expedition into a byzantine codebase and wrote a report on its structure.

Lead Web Developer and System Administrator June 2005–May 2007 iRadeon Sacramento, California

Contributed to all technological aspects of this early-stage startup, including Linux administration, developer collaboration, Perl system automation, and MySQL/PHP web development.

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