Richard Barrett-small
Software Development Manager, Digital Workplace at The University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Barrett-small is a seasoned software development manager with 13 years of experience leading web and digital workplace engineering at The University of Sheffield. He blends hands-on development in Django, PHP/Laravel, Node/Express and enterprise CMS with people-first leadership that bridges developers and stakeholders. His background includes architecting high-profile museum systems at Tate and the V&A, building public APIs and open-data initiatives that served millions of records and powered interactive exhibits. Known for pragmatic release management, testing frameworks and search/indexing solutions, he consistently turns complex cultural-data challenges into reliable, scalable services. Based in Sheffield, he brings a psychology degree to bear on team dynamics and user-focused product decisions, and has a curious streak reflected in past work across XML, AMQP/Celery workflows and diverse legacy migrations.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Eldritch Studies, Master’s Degree, Eldritch Studies at Miskatonic UniversityImpington Village CollegeBSc, Psychology, BSc, Psychology at The University of Sheffield
French
Github Skills (25)
metadata10
data-management10
transparency10
parse5
jira4
nodejs4
sublime4
validation4
ajv4
numeric4
validate4
release-management3
synchronize3
javascript3
sublime-text3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tategallery/collection
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Tate Collection metadata
Contributions:48 commits in 1 year
data-managementmetadatatransparency
richbs/vam-collections-data
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:249 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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