about

Dylan Richards is an entrepreneur and educator who is passionate about using software and web technologies to expose people to the world of software development, product creation, and entrepreneurship.

Since dropping out of the University of Connecticut, he's been a lead developer and instructor at a number of groundbreaking startups in New York City, including The New York Code + Design Academy, Sweeten, Allegory, Teladoc, and Amazon Inc.

He has more than 10 years of experience in web and software development, and from 2014 to 2017, served as the founder and CEO of Ruby on Richards -- an online coding school that took students from zero programming experience to building full-stack web applications in 8 weeks.

Today he's bridging the gap between tech and photography at Escalate.