Hi, I'm Sam Richards.

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TL;DR

I'm a software engineer focused on web and smart contract development. I spend my days building ethereum.org, hacking on dapps and scheming ways to empower Ethereum developers around the world.

Background

I was raised on two guiding principles:
1) Never stop learning
2) Choose courage over comfort

I earned a business degree and scholarship while operating my own startup, a venture that generated six-figure profits and led to a fascination with web development.

After graduating in 2012, I managed SEO on behalf of large consumer brands at Red Ventures. Programming became a passion as I deployed and optimized marketing websites that delivered millions in revenue.

In 2014, I moved to San Francisco for a 12-week bootcamp to pursue software engineering full time.

For 3 years, I was a product engineer at Neighborly, where I built a municipal bond investment platform. Our technology on-boarded tens of city and state government partners and transacted over $100 million of securities to individual investors. I encountered first-hand the inefficiencies of our capital markets and gained technical exposure to real-world blockchain projects.

I remain inspired by the potential of decentralized systems to democratize access to the opaque world of finance. After diving deep into Ethereum dapp development at ConsenSys Academy and Truffle University, I now work at the Ethereum Foundation and always seek opportunities where I can continue to push open finance forward.

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Where to go from here?

Connect with me on LinkedIn, GitHub, Medium, or Twitter.

Interested in working together?
Email me at sbrichards(at)gmail(dot)com

This site is hosted on IPFS. Check it out if you're not familiar.

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Thanks!

Sam Richards