Richard Gomer
Lecturer In Computer Science at defenddigitalme
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Gomer is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Southampton with 11 years' experience blending research, consultancy and leadership across human-centric technology, privacy, consent and data protection. He combines hands-on software development and UX design with rigorous qualitative and quantitative research, focusing on how socio-technical systems actually work rather than how they’re supposed to. His work spans academic projects on the Internet of Vehicles, meaningful consent and crowd-sourced transport data, alongside product and UX leadership roles at startups and consultancies. He also directs a children’s privacy advocacy group and serves as a local councillor, bringing policy, public accountability and community insight directly into his research and product work. Known for translating complex privacy regulations into usable interfaces, he builds tools and processes that help organisations earn user trust while enabling user agency.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Physics, Maths, Biology, Japanese, Computing, Physics, Maths, Biology, Japanese at Barton Peveril CollegeBSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of SouthamptonThe Gregg School
English, Japanese, French, German
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Github Skills (17)
laravel8
php6
dispatcher6
sdk5
odk5
javascript4
iot3
wifi3
jekyll3
esp82662
spec2
home-automation2
home-assistant2
esp322
php-framework2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Consentua/consentua-websdk
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
The javascript SDK for Consentua interactions
Contributions:3 PRs, 42 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
javascriptjavascript-sdkinteractionssdk
RichardGomer/ensemble-iot
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
A PHP framework for building IoT systems
Contributions:177 commits, 6 PRs, 262 pushes in 2 years 10 months
phpframeworkdispatcherphp-frameworkiot
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