richards.foo

tyler richards
senior software engineer
atl · open to remote

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[manifest]

i build distributed automation that handles billions of requests a year.

four years at array. typescript and go on aws. cut error rates ~60%, raised availability ~50%.

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

[selected work]
  • automation

    high-throughput automation platform

    billions of requests/yr · ~60% error reduction · ~50% availability lift

    stack · typescript · aws · datadog

  • privacy

    privacy protect — record removal at scale

    4m users protected · 200m records removed

    stack · typescript · aws · postgres

  • 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

> all work
[about]

five-plus years architecting high-throughput distributed systems. led design of financial and privacy platforms in typescript and go on aws. mentored engineers, set reliability standards, owned initiatives end-to-end.

also spent a recent four-month stretch outside engineering running an insurance brokerage — sharpened how i think about risk, tradeoffs, and translating systems for non-technical stakeholders. now back to building software full-time.

> full bio
distributed systemsautomationtypescriptgoawspostgresdatadogincident responsementorshipdesign reviewsreliabilityexperimentationagentic aiweb scrapingbot detectiondistributed systemsautomationtypescriptgoawspostgresdatadogincident responsementorshipdesign reviewsreliabilityexperimentationagentic aiweb scrapingbot detection
[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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