Richard Cotton
Digital Commerce Payments Marketplace Feed Management Consultant at BT
Dartford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Cotton is a seasoned digital commerce and payments specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and delivering B2C and B2B e-commerce solutions, particularly around SAP Hybris, marketplaces and payment integrations. He blends deep Java development roots with strategic leadership roles—running technology teams, advising enterprise transformation at BT and SAP, and guiding marketplace strategy for clients like PayPal and major retailers. Richard is equally comfortable designing low/no-code payment gateway solutions as he is solving feed management and operational challenges for large-scale marketplaces. Known for translating complex business needs into pragmatic build-vs-buy recommendations, he acts as a clear communicator between engineering and commercial stakeholders. An evangelist for new technologies, he has led connector teams serving nearly 1,000 clients and helped scale Mirakl/SAP integration practices across Europe and North America. Based in Dartford, England, he combines consultant agility with product-minded thinking, often surfacing operational insights that go beyond typical architecture recommendations.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Brooklands CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Staffordshire University
Github Skills (37)
integrate10
payment-gateway10
payment10
payment-service9
visa9
upi9
payment-integration9
payment-processing9
adyen9
tarantool8
marketplace8
commerce8
gateway8
integrations7
low-code7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rmcotton/upscale-openpayment-configs
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rmcotton/braintreeTutorial
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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