Richard Shurtz

Richard Shurtz is a Principal Software Engineer at Lucid, where significant contributions include the development and launch of Lucidspark in four months, providing technical guidance across multiple teams, and driving initiatives to address technical debt in backend services. Prior roles at Lucid encompass Senior Software Engineer, where leadership in the Growth team led to exceeding annual revenue goals, and innovative changes in subscription trials enhanced self-serve revenue. Earlier experience includes a Research Assistant position at Brigham Young University, where work in the Interactive Computing Everywhere lab supported academic research, and a Software Development Engineer Intern role at Microsoft, focused on end-to-end system development. Richard holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.