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
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Github Skills (139)
cms10
hugo10
to-do10
json-objects10
azure-ad-b2c10
single-page-application9
javascript9
api9
ecmascript9
api-client9
api-platform9
authentication9
linter9
msal9
rest-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
richie5um/TextBar
Oct 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
richie5um/QLZip
Jul 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 10 months
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