Introduction

Experienced people manager, of technical teams of up to 40 people; highly productive senior software engineer; 20 year Silicon Valley veteran co-founder. Great mentor.

Summary

Richard has been working with internet technologies since prior the launch of the web. He learned to program in BASIC as a child on the original Apple II (which still sits on the desk in his home office).

At university co-founded a company which built & sold computers for students and local businesses. On graduation, he spent three years in London in Enterprise IT roles, with significant success. Moved to Silicon Valley in 1999. Spent the next ten years in go-to-market roles with startups in the Enterprise Mobilization space.

In 2009 he returned to development and fell in love with coding all over again. He has been developing full-time in Ruby since then, first in contract roles, then as a full stack developer at Teespring, followed by three years as a senior software engineer at Enjoy Technology.

In 2018 took the helm at Voy, where he was hired by a regional airline to build product & engineering team for a spin-out startup that was shuttered when the parent company ran into financial difficulties.

Led the engineering team at Snackation, before taking over as Director of Engineering at FinTech startup XCLAIM.

Experience

2009 - Present: Development Roles

09/20 - PRESENT: XCLAIM

Director of Software Engineering
Lead engineering team of 8 engineers and one QA person. Ruby, Rails, React.

03/19 - 09/20: Snacknation

Software Engineering Manager
Managed engineering team. Architect. Code Design. Ruby, Rails, React.

01/18 - 03/19: Voy

President & CTO/Architect
Architect of product, built and led engineering team. Ruby, React, Blockchain

01/15 - 01/18: Enjoy Technology (3 years)

Full Stack Software Engineer, Senior
Used Ruby, Rails, JS, React to build commerce platform for smart last mile delivery. Designed, built and managed APIs for both internal use and external third parties.

04/14 - 12/14: Teespring (1 year)

Full Stack Software Engineer
Used Ruby, Rails, for e-commerce platform during period of hypergrowth. Built both back end and front end features.

06/11 - 03/14: Misc. Contract Roles (3 years)

Developer, Lead Developer

Contract roles with a startups & established businesses, primarily in Ruby (and Rails).

07/09 - 06/11: AppWhirl/App.Co (2 years)

Co-Founder & CEO, Lead Developer (from 2010)

Co-founder of AppWhirl (App.Co) - platform to 'make your own app free, in about five minutes'.

1999 - 2009: Go-to-market Roles, Silicon Valley

Misc. roles with early-stage startups focused on go-to-market activities. Ask me about them - always happy to share.