Rich Tracy
Lead Consultant Developer
About
Software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in ReactJS, Design Systems, C#, and Typescript. Strong full stack experience including API design and systems architecture. Skilled in improving software development processes and communication between engineering teams and management. Worked with a variety of industries, including Ecommerce, Aviation Training, Mining, and Finance.
Work Experience
Equal Experts
Remote in CO
Software Consultancy
May 2023 – October 2023
Contract Senior Java Consultant for Digital Audio Listening client
Worked a 6 month contract with a client in the digital audio listening space, worked to revamp their customer platform to enhance the overall customer experience while allowing for extension in a performance sensitive way. Primarily worked on the first-hop microservice from the mobile app and worked to allow internal users to define the customer experience via a CMS.
Highlights
- Came in at critical time revitalizing the progress on a team in trouble, getting back on track for company-wide roadmaps
- Provided expertise on team for CMS and client buildout, filling in a critical skills gap that was not known at the time to be needed
Thoughtworks
SF, NYC, and remote from CO
Software Consultancy
November 2018 – February 2023
Lead Consultant
Worked across many different clients using my full set of skills ranging from deep specialty in Front End to an Anchor and Subject Matter Expert for C# and Service Development. Constantly in leadership positions officially or if not officially, asked to support leaders in different ways helping to share the burden of leadership.
Highlights
- Ecommerce Client - Tech lead for the customer facing Design System (Second time at same client), providing expert technical direction as well as sound team leadership and insulation
- Finance Client - Senior Engineer for re-platforming, worked to transition deep C# and SQL Services between architectures, meeting major business deadlines
- Aviation Training Client - Lead Engineer and SME for C# and backend service work. Helped support a team of 8 engineers who had scarce knowledge of C# and backend development through the skill gap, enabling us to deliver successfully for the client
- Accounting Client - Senior Engineer for C# service deveopment, helping to accelerate delivery of a few key services
- Ecommerce Client - Tech lead for the customer facing Design System, established sound patterns of development and contributed to cross-team evangelism to ensure that our solution was capable enough to satisfy many team's diverse needs
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
Worked as a Senior Engineer and later Tech Lead of a team focused on creating a tool for Quarry Engineers to examine critical statistics about the blasts at their quarries
Highlights
- Joined and then led a team of 8 engineers
- Worked with business leaders to effectively promote our software going from 0 quarries using it to mid double digits during my tenure
- Established processes and patterns of working to build high quality working relationships with teams in Australia
- Helped team with high degree of expertise in C# for our backend services as well as our Angular frontend
FinFolio
Denver Tech Center, CO
Financial Services
February 2016 – May 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Joined a startup as their third engineer, working on core financial analysis software with a priority on both correctness as well as performance.
Highlights
- Led the effort to build a web front-end to what was originally an entirely thick-client C# application
- Built highly interactive visualizations of complex financial information for wealth managers
- Debugged and optimized performance critical SQL
Fire Mountain Gems and Beads
Grants Pass, OR
Ecommerce
January 2011 – January 2016
Programmer/Analyst / Senior Programmer/Analyst
Worked for the IT Department of one of the nation's leading suppliers of jewels and and jewelry making goods. Provided support for internal clients building solutions for the Distribution Center as well as Marketing Analysis teams.
Highlights
- Main point of contact for IT Development team for supporting our Distribution Center with many positive relationships
- Reduced error rate during the pack and ship process by 300%, resulting in many fewer cases of customer service incidents
- Championed a centralized error and diagnostic reporting system that allowed for many pieces of deployed software
- Established a repeatable build and update process for software deployed to various platforms
Contact
Aurora, Colorado CO 80015 US
(541) 450-9001
Education
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2005 2010
Skills
Full Stack Development
Master
Microservices
Service Oritented Architecture
Backend for Frotend
Single Page Application
Backend Dev
Master
.NET Core
.NET
C#
SQL
Frontend Dev
Master
Typescript
ReactJS
Agile software lifecycle
Master
CI/CD & DevOps mindset
Quickly deliver highest value
Demonstrate value to stakeholders
Identify undiscovered value and promote it
Interests
Open Source Software
Homelab
Kubernetes
Home Automation
Self Hosting
Gaming
Video games
Tabletop roleplaying
Board games