Chris Rickard
Founder & Director at Build Club
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Rickard is a founder and software leader with 15+ years of hands-on engineering and 20+ years building teams and products across Australia, Canada and the U.S., now focused on solving the root cause of failed projects: poor requirements. As Founder & Director of Userdoc he blends product, AI and developer experience to auto-generate user stories, reverse-engineer existing systems into living documentation, and integrate requirements into delivery workflows—delivering measurable time savings for clients like Infosys. He previously scaled and exited teams as a serial founder and technical lead at companies such as inoutput, Setkick and Portable, building everything from logistics and healthcare platforms to production-management tools. Based in Melbourne, Chris pairs a pragmatic engineering background with a persistent obsession for clarifying ambiguity in software projects, turning fuzzy ideas into testable, shippable specs.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Padua CollegeBachelor of Network Computing Applications Development, Bachelor of Network Computing Applications Development at Monash University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (106)
http-client10
javascript10
nodejs10
chatgpt9
twitter9
webscraping9
feed9
espn9
sdk9
generative-ai9
ai9
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gemini9
python9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisrickard/rhinoceros
Apr 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:9 commits in 7 months
chrisrickard/laptop.osx
Nov 2013 - Dec 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 13 pushes in 5 years 1 month
osxlinuxlaptop-setupdotfileslaptop
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