Richard Smith is an experienced partnerships and partner-sales leader with nine years in technology and adtech, currently RVP Partner Sales, EMEA at Contentsquare. He combines a media-agency foundation with hands-on product and tech partnership roles across Mixpanel, Adjust and Twitter, giving him a rare perspective spanning agency, vendor and platform sides of programmatic advertising. Known for clear communication and fast adaptation to new technologies, he has repeatedly built and scaled commercial partner programs across EMEA and LATAM. He also contributes to open-source tooling—updating a popular Python Twitter API wrapper to support newer Direct Message and Account Activity endpoints—illustrating practical API fluency beyond sales. Based in London, he brings a tenacious, collaborative approach to driving revenue and product integrations in fast-paced organisations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Studies with Enterprise & Consultancy, Bachelor's degree Business Studies with Enterprise & Consultancy at Bournemouth University
Minimal python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / API Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard's primary contribution involves updating the `constants.py` file, which appears to define API endpoints for the Twitter API. Their commits focused on adding new endpoints related to the Direct Messages and Account Activity APIs, aligning with the evolution of Twitter's API functionalities. These changes demonstrate a clear understanding of the API structure and a dedication to maintaining the wrapper's up-to-date compatibility with the Twitter platform. They also handled the "PUT" method in the code.
Starter app / scripts for consuming events via Twitter Account Activity API (beta).
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
apireacteventsaccountapp-scripts
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Richard Smith - RVP Partner Sales, EMEA at Contentsquare