Richard Hart
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRichard Hart is a seasoned technology leader with 25+ years of experience and 17 years in senior engineering and leadership roles, currently serving as Director of Technology at News UK. He combines hands-on engineering roots in Java, Ruby on Rails and modern cloud stacks with proven delivery of complex, end-to-end customer and subscription platforms at scale. Richard has led multi-disciplinary teams of 40+ and managed multi-million-pound budgets while driving technical strategy, transformations and product-focused outcomes. He is a systems and product thinker who prioritises stakeholder relationships, inclusivity and coaching to develop high-performing teams. An active back-end contributor to the well-known Spree e-commerce project, he brings practical open-source experience fixing migrations, pagination and admin UI issues. Adaptable and values-driven, he thrives in forward-looking organisations that prioritise impact and measurable value.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese
Github Skills (18)
ecommerce10
rails10
migration10
ruby10
spree10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
ruby-rails9
commerce9
frontend8
shopware8
webshop8
shopify8
admin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
May 2013 - Nov 2014
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Spree e-commerce platform. Their work involved fixing bugs related to migrations, such as supporting legacy stores and handling missing calculators. They also addressed layout and style issues within the admin interface. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase by referencing Spree::Order to prevent errors and adding Kaminari calls for pagination links.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
Hates/spree_current_stock_report
Dec 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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