richards.foo

tyler richards
senior software engineer
atl · open to remote

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[manifest]

i build production systems that handle billions of requests a year.

four years at array, junior to senior ii. mentored 3 engineers, ran design reviews and on-call. typescript and go on aws.

this site is the work sample. how it's built is the proof.

[selected work]
  • platform

    automation platform: privacy at scale

    billions of requests/yr · 4m users · 200m records removed · ~60% error reduction · ~50% availability lift

    stack · typescript · go · aws · step functions · postgres · datadog

  • ai

    document ai: agentic wiki generator

    agentic pipeline → static wikis from heterogeneous sources

    stack · python · agents · supabase

  • research

    got detected: bot-detection knowledge base

    live reference for the web automation community

    stack · next · supabase · mdx

  • crm

    richards crm: multi-tenant outreach + scheduling

    thousands of leads · rbac, real-time, full-stack

    stack · typescript · next · supabase

> all work
[about]

five years building production systems at scale. four years at array on the senior engineering track, junior to senior ii. led architecture for financial and privacy platforms in typescript and go on aws. mentored 3 engineers, served as final-round interviewer for senior hires, owned on-call and incident response.

ran an insurance brokerage in early 2026 and shipped a multi-tenant crm from scratch. typescript, next.js, supabase, netlify. now back to building software full-time.

> full bio
distributed systemssystem designtypescriptgoawspostgresdatadogincident responsecode reviewmentorshipdesign reviewsreliabilityexperimentationagentic aiweb scrapingbot detectioncrmreal-timedistributed systemssystem designtypescriptgoawspostgresdatadogincident responsecode reviewmentorshipdesign reviewsreliabilityexperimentationagentic aiweb scrapingbot detectioncrmreal-time
[network]

this site has a multiplayer layer.

an anonymous callsign per visitor, a daily puzzle, a 3d grid you can place a node on, twelve glyphs scattered across the pages. it's mostly a quiet thing, but every click leaves a trace, and other people are pressing too.

tip · twelve glyphs are hidden across the site. find them all and you mint a sigil for the month.

let's build something 

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