Richard Somerfield
Chief Technology Officer at Summize
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Somerfield is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years designing and shipping cloud-native, data-driven systems across Azure, AWS and multi-platform environments. He combines deep low-level Windows and networking expertise with modern stacks—Go, C#, TypeScript, Node, Elasticsearch and VueJS—to deliver scalable analytics, security and MDM products from prototype to production. Richard has led distributed engineering teams across the UK and US, lived and worked in Silicon Valley, and driven platform migrations (AWS→Azure) and cloud strategy at enterprise scale. He’s equally hands-on—authoring services, data collectors and CI/CD pipelines—and has a history of turning research and patents into shipped products. Notably, he helped architect a flexible event-store and dashboarding system that became the basis for cloud security offerings after acquisition. Based in Warrington, UK, he blends pragmatic engineering, architecture and leadership to move complex projects rapidly to v1 and beyond.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciense Computer Science, Bachelor of Sciense Computer Science at The University of ManchesterAlsager Comprehensive School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (100)
hugo10
json-objects10
vscode-extension10
javascript9
office-addin9
ecmascript9
cms9
linter9
msal9
office-js9
microsoft-authentication9
nextcloud9
debugging9
eslint9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
richie5um/QLZip
Jul 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 10 months
richie5um/reggie
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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