Richard Beddington
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Waverley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Beddington is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end and full-stack systems for major publishers and tech platforms. He’s held senior roles at Spotify and The Guardian, contributing notably to The Guardian’s image management front end and modernizing its webpack build and deployment pipeline. A pragmatic engineer and co-founder-turned-IC, Richard has led web teams and startups, pairing product sensibility with hands-on implementation across CSS, JavaScript, and build tooling. Now at Anthropic, he brings large-scale product experience from media and music streaming into AI infrastructure work. Based in Waverley, England, he blends a creative background in music with a technical career, which often shows in his attention to UX detail and developer experience improvements.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BMus Music, BMus Music at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
webpacker10
angularjs10
webpack10
html9
css9
jquery7
datepicker6
internet-explorer6
regex6
ruby6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/grid
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
The Guardian’s image management system
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 19 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the front-end codebase, focusing on the migration and setup of the project using webpack. They worked on building the front-end bundle, including the required CSS and JavaScript files for Kahuna. Key changes include fixing style issues and adding jQuery for ng-element. They also addressed linting errors and made code adjustments to ensure proper functionality and deployment of the application.
management-systemproductionguardianimage-management
RichieAHB/normal-distribution
Mar 2016 - Jul 2021
A small javascript module for working with normal distributions
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years 4 months
distributionsjsv8-javascript-enginejavascriptnormal
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