Dylan Richards

New York, New York, United States

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Software Engineer

Languages

German
English

Projects

rs-sdk
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Competencies

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Software Engineer

rs-sdk

June 2026 - Present

Developer

Proposed and implemented total-XP tracking across the hiscores system: XP columns on the overall and all per-skill leaderboards plus player profiles, with abbreviated display formatting for scannability

General Development

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Teammate

Team:

Jen Levy

Developer

Dylan Richards

Teammate

React Ruby

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Jul 2025 – Present

Technical Founder

Elm Studio

Founded career-readiness SaaS giving students a professional web presence; 10 universities live, first partnership international (BITS Pilani Dubai)
Solo-built multi-tenant platform (Rails, React, Heroku, Cloudflare): custom domain provisioning with automated SSL, Stripe, Classroom import
Shipped AI layer (OpenAI): resume parsing to structured profiles, brand theming, content assistant, NACE competency analytics
Built and led 3-person team including co-founder; own product strategy, hiring, and university partnerships

Jul 2024 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

RubiconMD

Shipped AthenaHealth EHR write-back integration (SMART on FHIR) within first 90 days, closing the eConsult loop for 7+ health systems
Co-architected production AI platform: DB-driven agents framework with managed prompts, JSON schemas, and per-workflow model selection
Built the AI operability layer: LLM output persistence, token-level cost tracking, admin guardrails, and rating/feedback quality loop
Co-architected voice dictation pipeline (medical ASR + constrained LLM polishing); led story breakdown and sizing for the team
Recognized as Rails performance expert in 98-person tech org; cut auth query size and latency 50% across ~2,000 healthcare orgs
Drove org-wide flaky test reduction initiative, stabilizing CI pipelines and reducing failed builds and merge conflicts across engineering
Created engineering automation platform for PRs, deployments, story transitions, and release notifications, later evolving it into reusable Claude Skills adopted across the engineering organization.

Ruby Ruby on Rails AngularJS Docker CircleCI AI/LLM Claude Code

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024

Senior Engineering Consultant

Morgan & Morgan

Architected and delivered V1 of an LLM legal document system: Textract pipeline over 58M documents enabling attorney case queries
Led team of 5 backend/DevOps engineers; introduced sprints, WIP limits, and anonymous retros — increasing deploy frequency
Migrated business logic from Redshift SQL to the application layer; exited with V1 handed off, documented, and team self-sufficient

Python Django Pinecone OpenAI OCR Terraform Vector Databases Document Classification

Nov 2022 – Jan 2024

Lead Software Engineer

Jellyvision

Revitalized team performance through data-driven velocity improvements and engineering best practices
Architected integration between medical recommendation system and Picwell’s ML API
Implemented API optimization strategies including throttling and batch processing to reduce costs
Managed and mentored 6 direct reports through regular 1:1s and performance reviews
Delivered organization-wide tech talks on technical debt, performance, and system design
Established structured story grooming process and retrospectives to align with company objectives

Ruby Ruby on Rails HTML CSS ReactJS

Sep 2020 – May 2022

Senior Software Engineer

The RealReal

Architected and launched flash sale API service enabling automated price updates across thousands of items
Optimized Units Per hour Report system to improve data-driven resource allocation decisions
Implemented automated consigner communication system for price approval workflow

Ruby Ruby on Rails

Apr 2020 – Sep 2020

Consultant

Etsy

Managed and enhanced employee access control system, focusing on security and performance optimization
Streamlined role management by consolidating permissions and establishing pre-approved role structures
Collaborated with legal team to ensure regulatory compliance of access control framework
Served as technical advisor for cross-functional teams on access control implementation

PHP

Mar 2019 – Apr 2020

Senior Software Engineer

Alice Financial

Better pretax benefits are possible! Commuter benefits, FSA, and HSA accounts have never been so easy to setup and so easy to use. No math, no forms.

Twitter

Developed automation system for Facebook ad campaigns to increase user acquisition
Migrated 200,000+ users’ email campaigns from HubSpot to Customer.IO with zero downtime
Tripled email engagement metrics through systematic A/B testing and optimization
Led team of offshore contractors in successful email template redesign initiative
Collaborated with product team to transform requirements into manageable milestones
Developed and documented a robust backend syncing system with marketing tools

Dec 2015 – Sep 2016

Senior Systems Engineer

Amazon

Created Team Profile Manager to track performance metrics for 65+ development teams
Developed TicketAssigner to optimize support ticket distribution workflow
Led Marketplace Technical Operations Reviews to identify and resolve system bottlenecks
Built automation tools to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency and excellence

The University of Connecticut

Computational Finance

The University of Connecticut is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut. Founded in 1881, it is recognized as a top-tier research institution serving over 30,000 students.

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Univerität Zürich

German Language & Literature

Die Universität Zürich gehört zu den besten Forschungsuniversitäten Europas und bietet das breiteste Angebot an Studienfächern in der Schweiz.

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Harvard Business Online

Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business School

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Hack Reactor

Software Development

Hack Reactor is an immersive software engineering coding bootcamp offering full-time and part-time programs. It provides students with computer science education and practical training to prepare them for tech careers.

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Dylan Richards

rs-sdk

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Team:

Technical Founder

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Engineering Consultant

Lead Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Consultant

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

The University of Connecticut

Univerität Zürich

Harvard Business Online

Hack Reactor

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