Richard Silverton
Principal Engineering Manager at UiPath
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Silverton is a Principal Engineering Manager based in London with 12 years of experience building and leading full-stack JavaScript teams across startups and enterprise product companies. He pairs a strong finance background and quantitative training (MMath, MSc Financial Mathematics) with hands-on expertise in Node.js, React/React Native, MongoDB and modern tooling like Webpack, Ansible and AWS. Known for advocating functional programming principles and atomic CSS to improve maintainability, he has shipped greenfield React/Redux projects, native apps and robust test suites in small agile teams. As a former VP at Goldman Sachs and later CTO of a consumer startup, he brings product-level judgment and operational discipline to engineering leadership. He co-organises the London Meteor meetup and experiments with neural networks in JavaScript and ReasonML, reflecting a commitment to community and continuous learning. Outside work he stays active running and organising grassroots football events, a hint at his team-first, disciplined approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MMath, Mathematics, MMath, Mathematics at University of NottinghamMSc, Financial Mathematics, MSc, Financial Mathematics at Cass Business School
Stackoverflow
8,003reputation
249kreached
215answers
2questions
mongodb
top-5%
meteor
top-1%
javascript
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
testing10
test-framework10
material-ui10
hyper10
automation10
appium10
hybrid10
javascript10
react-components10
test-automation-framework10
webdriver10
async10
browser10
devtools10
rest10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tableflip/makelunch-infrastructure
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
deployingansible-scriptsdiskansiblefloppy
tableflip/kudoshealth-lib
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
apidata-projects
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