Summary
Richard Davies is a Senior Web Application Developer with 17 years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale municipal web systems, currently leading Drupal 10 development for portland.gov. He brings deep front-end and back-end skills—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ColdFusion, SQL—and a strong track record building secure, PCI-compliant payment integrations that processed roughly $85M and 170,000 transactions annually. At the City of Portland he sustained an enterprise ColdFusion CMS with hundreds of thousands of content items and users, championing modern tooling (GitHub, CircleCI, Lando, Pantheon), unit testing, and web standards across teams. Comfortable across the full software lifecycle, he blends hands-on coding with pragmatic architecture and long-term maintenance focus, and is notable for applying legacy ColdFusion frameworks alongside contemporary Drupal workflows to bridge institutional systems and modern web practices.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Brigham Young University