Richard Lawrence
Product & Leadership Coach, Founder at Humanizing Work
Hotchkiss, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Lawrence is a product and leadership coach and founder with 16 years guiding software organizations to deliver high-quality software faster while improving employee and customer satisfaction. He founded Humanizing Work and previously partnered at Agile For All, translating Scrum, XP, Lean, and Theory of Constraints into practical, continuous-improvement practices for teams and executives. Hands-on early in his career as a developer and technical leader, he has led delivery, people management, and agile evangelism at firms like Avanade and contributed to open-source projects such as cucumber-ruby, working on core runtime and CLI logic. Based in Hotchkiss, Colorado, he blends interdisciplinary insights from psychology, anthropology, and international studies to humanize technical work and drive measurable ROI. Known for turning process theory into usable habits, he helps organizations get better over time rather than chasing one-off change initiatives.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Intercultural Studies, BA Intercultural Studies at Biola UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoGraduate Work (All but thesis) International Studies, Graduate Work (All but thesis) International Studies at University of Denver
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
testing10
cucumber10
gherkin9
build-automation8
rspec6
specflow6
tdd6
bdd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Jun 2011 - Oct 2011
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the core logic and structure of the Cucumber-Ruby project. The commits involve modifications to core Ruby files, including the CLI options, runtime support code, step definitions, and AST. Code changes include updates to the Table class, integration of features, and support code within the project.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
richardlawrence/Cuke4Nuke
Aug 2009 - Jun 2011
Contributions:153 commits in 1 year 9 months
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