# Kyle Richardson

> Software Engineer

Location: Fishers, Indiana, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylerichardson

Fullstack developer lucky enough to get paid to do his hobby.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer, Devops Engineer @ Ally
Jan 2021 – Present
- Backend developer using event-driven, serverless architecture. Plan and develop architecture with low-latency in mind using aws & terraform. Includes event bridge, sqs, lambda, & dynamo.
- Devops Engineer. Built and maintained Gitlab CI including blue/green deployments, package publishing, multiregional, and scaffolding applications.

### Co-Founder, Architect, Engineer @ Capital Stonks
Jan 2020 – Present
Algorithmic stock trading platform
- Deployed using AWS ECS, S3, CloudFront, and RDS
- Implemented algorithms for entry/exit points of stocks (58% winrate)
- NLP written in python using spacy & scikit-learn used to determine the sentiment of stocks from social media
- Created DB layer for tracking transactions, social media mentions, and indicators using Knex/Objection ORM
- Created docker images (Express API, Node.js/Python worker, MySQL, Redis) for local environment and deployment
- Created React/Redux app used to track bot's transactions/win rate as well as back-testing algorithms

### Co-Founder, Architect, Engineer @ DailyClips.io - Entertainment Content Aggregator & Cloud-based Automated Video Editing
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Streaming Aggregation Worker: Designed and engineered robust worker in Node.js implementing streaming Twitter and Reddit API’s, Jest, FFMPEG. Pre qualifying and categorizing assets before human review utilizing ML layer (TensorFlow & Python).

Programmatic Video Postprocessor: Engineered processing layer for automating video editing tasks resulting in final product fit for consumer viewing. Tasks include stitching short clips together to create ~10 minute video and adding intro, outro and player credit overlay.

Express.js API: Developed API as a consumption layer for React CMS application used for manual categorization and tagging. `https://www.dailyclips.io`

Architecture & DevOps: Deployed containerized platforms for workers to AWS ECS via CloudFormation.
Provisioned priced optimized workflow utilizing S3, RDS, EC2 and SQS.

### Full Stack Engineer, DevOps @ OSRS Flipper
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Fullstack Engineer
- Built frontend using React/Redux. `https://osrs-flipper.com`.
- Built backend using Express.js & Sequelize ORM.
- Developed RuneLite plugin using Java swing.
- Created Discord bot for Flipper's discord which handles notifications and ranking system.
Devops
- Deployed frontend through Cloudformation, using S3 and Cloudfront.
- Backend infrastructure built using Terraform. ECS, Elasticache Redis, MySQL RDS, Fargate, Docker

### Sr. Developer @ Kroger
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
-Built APIs to serve Kroger’s AMP Platform using Typescript Express, Fastify, and
MongoDB
- Built features for Kroger’s AMP platform using React (Typescript)

### Tech Lead, Back End Engineer @ 24G
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Tech Lead, Backend Engineer - Node.js, Redis, MySQL, Firebase, SQS
- Containerized stack for local development (Redis, Express API, Node cron, SQS, SQS consumer, and MySQL)
- Introduced Sequelize ORM
- Introduced unit and e2e testing with jest, helped setup CI
- Built CMS to work with Sequelize models
- Built APIs to serve front-end devs to meet clients' requirements

### Software Engineer @ HOMEE, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
APIs, Mobile (React Native) developer

- Built features in PHP/ Slim and Express.js APIs
- Ported features from PHP Slim API to Express.js API
- Created self-cleaning MySQL factories for mocking database entities in PHP (no orm) and Javascript (Objection/Knex ORM) for unit and integration testing
- Built and maintained AWS Lambdas
- Built out components in React Native to match design docs.
- Implemented consumer layer in React Native to handle requests to our backend apis

### Full Stack Engineer @ Minute7 Time and Expense Tracking
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
Sole full stack engineer. Handled frontend, backend, and devops.

- Rewrote frontend in React from CakePHP
- Created new features in mobile (React Native) app
- Moved from mvc CakePHP to a CakePHP API
- Handled AWS ElasticBeanstalk, S3, Cloudformation, Cloudfront, Lambdas, and Route53

### Web Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge City, Indiana, United States
Created websites by request for businesses/individuals using html, css, php, and javascript


## Education
### Computer Science
Ball State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Computer Science
Purdue University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-richardson-a610341a3

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Last updated: 2026-03-22