Richard Brown
VP Software Development at Salesforce
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Brown is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience driving delivery of SaaS, enterprise data platforms, healthcare systems, and top-ranked consumer mobile games. As VP of Software Development at Salesforce he leads multi-discipline organizations across development, data engineering, web, and QA, setting strategy, release governance, and reliability standards for complex product portfolios. He has a proven record of scaling high-performing teams and embedding agile/lean practices to translate business priorities into measurable outcomes and predictable delivery. His technical depth includes high-throughput data systems, real-time analytics, and complex interoperability—skills honed building capital markets platforms at SAP and EHR integrations at Sage. Notably, he combines enterprise rigor with consumer product instincts from shipping free-to-play titles that reached millions of downloads and top app-store rankings. Based in Portland and grounded by an MBA from Oxford and a Computer Science degree from Cambridge, he brings strategic leadership paired with hands-on systems expertise.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of OxfordBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English
Github Skills (71)
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governance10
camera10
ethereum10
blockchain10
mesh9
object-detection9
realtime9
rtsp9
gps9
home-assistant9
computer-vision8
home-automation8
open-hardware8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractresearchforum/research_content
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
smartcontractresearchforum/scrf-sourcecred
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:280 commits, 1 push in 9 months
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