Richard Middleton

I've built full-stack platforms for Aprio, Western Governors University, OpenVault, and The Muse, spanning asset management, education technology, enterprise integrations, and growth products. My work has enabled enterprise onboarding, accessibility compliance, partner interoperability, and measurable conversion gains.

At OpenVault, I led OAuth integration with Keycloak and Active Directory to unblock a major enterprise deal, reduced CI/CD build times by 73%, and automated geolocation processing for 100k+ records per month. At The Muse, I replaced a $50k/month A/B testing vendor, built a quiz engine that increased conversion by about 32%, and mentored engineers through a GraphQL migration.

I'm deep in Python, Django, React, and modern JavaScript, and I enjoy owning products end to end—from architecture and infrastructure through launch, analytics, and iteration. I've also shipped independent products, including an event-discovery app and an authoring platform with AI-assisted writing tools.