Toran Richards
Founder & CEO at AutoGPT
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToran Richards is a founder and CEO with eight years’ experience building influential software and game projects, best known for creating AutoGPT—one of the world’s most popular and fastest-growing GitHub repositories. Based in Edinburgh, he combines hands-on development (Unity, procedural generation, LLM agents) with strategic leadership across startups and advisory roles, including OpenUK’s AI Advisory Board. He previously led Significant Gravitas to deliver tech for climate, education, and conservation, and has contracted on cutting-edge ecological software at UKCEH. Toran pairs product-level vision with deep technical execution, and his background in wildlife fieldwork and boat maintenance informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to resilient systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Games Development, BSc Games Development at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (55)
artificial-intelligence10
openai-api10
python10
llm10
openai10
autonomous-agents10
ai10
autogpt10
claude10
gpt10
agentic-ai10
chatgpt9
sandbox9
physics9
unity3d9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Torantulino/SpaceBattle
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Space Battle Game made in Unity as part of an Edinburgh Napier Group project.
Contributions:144 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
gamebattleunityunity3dedinburgh
kcze/SpaceRocks
Apr 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 62 pushes in 4 years
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