John Richards
Head Of Developer Relations
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Richards is a developer relations leader with 11 years of experience building communities and shipping developer-focused products across travel, security, and web operations. Currently Head of Developer Relations at Nuitée, he helps developers integrate the world’s only open hotel booking API, having previously grown open source communities at Paladin Cloud and led Developer Advocacy at Pantheon. He combines hands-on web engineering roots (LAMP, WordPress, integrations) with strategic program and team leadership developed running digital teams at Washington University. Based in St. Louis, he balances technical empathy with operational rigor—introducing automation, governance, and Jira-driven workflows to scale multi-thousand-site environments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who turns complex platform capabilities into approachable developer experiences. Outside work he shares his life with his wife and a clowder of cats, a glimpse of the patient, collaborative style he brings to teams.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Shepherd UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at WVU Potomac State CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Information Systems at Hannibal-LaGrange University
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Github Skills (13)
wordpress10
pantheon10
documentation10
plugin8
wordpress-plugin8
php6
traffic6
react6
security5
jetpack5
js5
extensible5
marketing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jrastaban/wordpress-webops
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:504 PRs, 11 pushes, 504 branches in 1 year 7 months
jrastaban/wordpress-with-composer
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:305 PRs, 306 branches, 303 comments in 10 months
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