Richard Hand is a Senior Developer and front-end specialist with 15 years' experience designing delightful user interfaces and shipping international e‑learning products. Based in Berlin, he blends UX-focused wireframing and visual design with hands-on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CMS theming across Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and Moodle. He’s a published author on e‑portfolios and a longtime advocate of open source, contributing UI improvements to high-profile projects such as Adobe’s AEM core components. Comfortable in small, focused teams, Richard excels at polishing micro-interactions and skins that make complex systems feel approachable. His background in computer science and years as a learning technologist inform a pragmatic approach to building educational web experiences that scale.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Standardized components to build websites with AEM.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:9 releases, 13 reviews, 366 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the UI and functionality of the AEM core components, specifically focusing on the image, search, and accordion components, as well as the content fragment list. Their work included fixing bugs, improving the styling, and adding features. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of JavaScript, CSS, and the AEM framework.
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Richard Hand - Senior Developer at Forte Digital GmbH