Professional Bio

Richard L. Taylor Jr. is a 25+ year software development and technology professional living in Huntersville, NC. His experience includes the design and development of small to enterprise class applications.  For the last 10 years, He has focused on web based applications and has recently began to explore mobile application development.  He currently serves as Vice President Of Platform and Cloud Engineering at SentryOne.

Richard is a believer of using the right tools for the job and has leveraged ASP.NET (Web API, MVC), SQL Server/MongoDB, Angular, Bootstrap, JavaScript/NodeJS, KendoUI, and Xamarin (just to name a few) to deliver solutions.  He has a great deal of experience but likes to explore new technologies, tools, and techniques to help create better software.

Richard has a passion for the software development community. He serves as one of the organizers of the Modern Devs Charlotte meetup group and is the founding organizer of the Charlotte Xamarin Developers meetup group.  Both groups try to create environments where developers of all skill levels can come together and learn about the latest technologies, tools, and techniques to create software. These groups also provide a venue to network with fellow developers in the community.  In addition to serving the local software development community via meetup groups, Richard also speaks at regional, national, and international technology users groups and conferences.  His speaking schedule can be found here: http://www.rightincode.com/page/speaking-schedule

Because of his technical community work, Richard received the Microsoft Most Valuable  Professional (MVP) Award.  MVP’s are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community.  They make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge.

When not developing software, Richard is focused on spending time with his lovely wife Shondrecca (she gives the best hugs!!) and their five children (Richard III, Ayanna, David, Jonathan, and Stephen).