Richard McCartney
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRichard Mccartney is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering lead based in London with 13 years delivering production-ready UI systems and design systems across web, iOS, and Android. He has led multidisciplinary teams at Wise and Lloyd’s, driving rebrands and building internal design systems and developer tooling that improved cross-platform consistency and delivery. A hands-on front-end specialist, Richard has contributed to Canonical’s popular Vanilla Framework and built component libraries at Monzo and British Airways, blending modern JS, SCSS, and accessibility best practices. He’s experienced in operationalising design—introducing DevOps standards, Figma governance, and in-house tooling—to speed product development and onboarding. Known for pairing product design sensibility with engineering rigor, he scales teams and systems while still shipping code and mentoring engineers.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
css-frameworks10
sass9
website-design8
webapp8
ui-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/vanilla-framework
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
From community websites to web applications, this CSS framework will help you achieve a consistent look and feel.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:257 commits, 81 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the CSS framework by merging branches and updating CSS files. Their work involved modifying existing styles and incorporating new features. They primarily worked on `demo/ubuntu-styles.css` file and added changes in `index.html` file. The commits show changes to the grid system and UI elements.
csssasscss-frameworkvanilla-frameworknpm-package
canonical-web-and-design/maas-gui-vanilla-theme
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
MAAS GUI Theme. Provides a HTML & CSS Framework to develop the UI of the MAAS app and other projects
Contributions:7 releases, 284 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
cssmaasvanilla-frameworkframeworkscss
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