Richard Hyland
Head Of Technology at 36Zero
Basildon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Hyland is a seasoned Head of Technology with 13+ years building high-traffic, ad-driven web platforms and leading distributed cross‑platform engineering teams. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise in PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Drupal, React/Vue and mobile (iOS/Android) with deep operational experience in AWS, Terraform and multi‑layer caching to deliver performant, scalable systems. Known for turning complex publishing and ad‑tech requirements into pragmatic API‑first architectures, he has led teams at Time Inc. UK and now steers development, QA and hiring at 36Zero. Beyond leadership, he still codes and cares about performance and viewability, bringing a rare blend of infrastructure savvy and frontend optimization to product delivery. An early background in civil engineering informs his pragmatic approach to architecture and process.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering, BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering at University of SouthamptonWestcliff High School for Boys
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Github Skills (57)
debug10
php-class10
active-directory10
authentication9
ldap9
laravel9
json-api9
rest9
php9
api9
hateoas9
ldap-authentication9
weatherkit8
rotation8
pusher8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rich2k/pusher-beams
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
Sending push notifications in Laravel projects using Pusher Beams (https://pusher.com/beams)
Contributions:16 releases, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 5 years 6 months
pushpusher-beamspush-notificationsnotificationssending
Rich2k/google2fa-laravel
Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
A One Time Password Authentication package, compatible with Google Authenticator for Laravel
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
one-time-passwordauthenticatorauthenticationone-timepassword
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