# Richard Holgate

> Senior Software Engineer at Fountain

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richardholgate

Solutions-focused web developer who believes all software deserves to be easy to use. Computers are great, but it’s the people that keep things interesting. Loves finding a good way out of a tough spot.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Manager @ Fountain
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fountain
Jan 2022 – Present
- Team lead on three projects, responsible for technical discovery, development plan, and timeline.
- Converted core I-9 functionality from legacy Rails codebase to a React front-end with a well defined backend API, leading to an 8% increase in completion rate, and a 15% decrease in time-to-complete.
- Implemented I-9 Section 3 functionality, critical for client employment compliance.
- Automated data feed to sourcing partner, completely eliminating the manual onboarding process that could take as long as 8 weeks.
- Accidental I-9/E-Verify expert.
- Worked with leadership and accounting to establish company donation-matching policy, and lead multiple donation drives that resulted in almost $2,000 in donations to non-profits.

### Platform Integration Engineer @ Pixlee TurnTo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Company expert on our Shopify App, Magento 2 Extension, and SFCC Cartridge. Providing personal support for platform integration clients, while actively developing features, and expanding documentation.
- Member of newly formed Technical Services team, with a focus on streamlining development and client-ticket systems, including establishing new Jira workflows, and developing documentation for internal tools and processes.
- Self-directed, working with Product, Customer Success, and Engineering teams to balance bug fixes, functional improvements, and plan feature development.
- Responsible for 3 codebases, coordinating with external development teams, assistanting clients with relevant platform integration, personally developing improvements and new features, and ancillary items including documentation and maintaining relevant marketplace listings.

### Platform Integration Engineer @ TurnTo Networks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Company expert on our Shopify App, Magento 2 Extension, and SFCC Cartridge. Providing personal support for platform integration clients, while actively developing features, and expanding documentation.
- Self-directed, with a focus on client relations
- Responsible for 3 codebases, coordinating with external development teams, assistance for clients on relevant platform, personally developing improvements and new features, and ancillary items including documentation and maintaining relevant marketplace listings.

### Web Developer @ Dark Horse Comics, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Portland, Oregon Area
- Critical member of five-person team responsible for migrating TFAW.com site from a 30-year-old legacy PHP site to Magento 2 in Sept. 2019.

- Migration from legacy site included moving: ~100,000 product records, ~50,000 customer accounts, a complex pre-order and subscription fulfillment system, dozens of internal tools and reports, and several integrations with 3rd-party services

- Responsibilities include development of Customer and Order data migration scripts, ShareASale affiliate
program integration, product search customizations, and more.

- Primary maintainer of in-house product catalog import tool built in Django Oscar framework.

### Computer Science Instructor @ Code To The Future
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon Area
- Solo instructor for 10-20 student workshops in after-school classes and summer camps, teaching students programming fundamentals through Scratch and Minecraft Modding in Java.
- Early member of flagship program in Portland-Area, helping to establish dozens of ongoing school programs.

### Freelance Web Developer @ Portland State University Linguistics Department
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon
- Hired by senior project client along with one other group member from original 12-person team to continue work on senior project.
- Finishing development and testing on a few features, as well as development and testing of several features not implemented in
 original project. Development in ASP.NET MVC in C#, HTML, CSS, Javascript with Bootstrap, SQL, and other tools.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Portland State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richard-holgate

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Last updated: 2026-03-22