Richard Browne
Software Engineer at OpenFin
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRichard Browne is a seasoned software engineer with 10+ years building modern web and cloud solutions, currently contributing at OpenFin while maintaining the privacy-focused xBrowserSync project he founded. He spans the full stack—Angular/React front-ends, C#/.NET backends, Node.js services, and Azure DevOps—specializing in SharePoint migrations and client-side, responsive enterprise apps. Richard combines hands-on engineering with project leadership, having led teams delivering aggressive, production-grade SharePoint and Office 365 solutions and automating CI/CD for complex deployments. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved popular frontend tooling such as the jQuery SmartWizard plugin and runs a sync service used by thousands worldwide, demonstrating practical UX and cross-platform mobile experience. Comfortable mentoring stakeholders and driving process change, he pairs deep Microsoft-platform expertise with a pragmatic, security-minded approach to cloud-native development.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, 1st class honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, 1st class honours at Goldsmiths College, U. of London
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
jquery10
bootstrap10
ui-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
techlab/jquery-smartwizard
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
The awesome jQuery step wizard plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on updating the SmartWizard plugin to be compatible with Bootstrap 4. They made several commits to modify the CSS and JavaScript to correct the display of visual elements, particularly the arrows and circles themes. Additionally, the user updated the example files to ensure proper functionality and included the Bootswatch theme, demonstrating a strong understanding of the plugin's theming capabilities and integration with the Bootstrap framework.
bowerjsdelivrjqueryjavascriptstep-wizard
pwweb/Copper
May 2020 - Mar 2025
An API extension for NumberFormatter
Contributions:7 releases, 19 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 10 months
apiatom-pluginnumberformattersketchup
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