Richard Scarrott
Founding Engineer at Witan Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Scarrott is a frontend-leaning full stack software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, user-focused web applications across startups and major brands in London. He specializes in JavaScript and TypeScript, particularly React, Node.js, Remix and GraphQL, and has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles including CTO at Parade and lead developer positions. Richard is known for shipping maintainable code and pragmatic architecture while staying fastidious about developer experience and modern tooling. His background spans finance, retail, and travel products (Monzo, Trainline, Burberry), giving him a strong track record of solving complex UX and performance challenges at scale. Colleagues value him as a quick learner and collaborative problem-solver who balances product sensibility with deep front-end craft.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree (BSc) Computer Science at University of Bedfordshire
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webpack
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apollo
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redux
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javascript
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
material-ui10
slideshow10
jest-transformer10
bundler10
express-graphql10
jsx10
html10
json10
shopify10
intl10
commonjs10
dom10
nodejs10
dataloader10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
60frames/webpack-hot-server-middleware
Sep 2016 - Feb 2019
:fire: Hot reload webpack bundles on the server
Contributions:25 commits, 40 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 4 months
hot-reloadwebpack-bundlewebpackuniversal-applicationsisomorphic
richardscarrott/snippets
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Chrome extension allowing you to import and execute JavaScript code snippets from GitHub
Contributions:43 commits, 10 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 month
chrome-extensionjavascript
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