Richard Summerhayes
Director Of Technology at VSSL Agency
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRichard Summerhayes is a Director of Technology based in San Francisco with 12+ years of experience designing and shipping cohesive web and marketing experiences at scale. He blends frontend engineering (React, Next.js, Tailwind) with marketing operations and analytics to own end-to-end digital customer journeys and reduce dependencies between marketing and engineering. At Akka he led multi-property brand unification, CMS modernizations, and consented analytics implementations that accelerated launches and improved SEO and developer experience. He pairs a design-first background and Adobe toolset fluency with practical AI tooling for documentation and chatbots, having architected separate LLM models to prevent data leakage during brand consolidation. Known for persuading cross-functional stakeholders to adopt design systems and for turning complex migrations (Marketo→Pardot→HubSpot) into repeatable template libraries, he focuses on measurable business outcomes. His career roots in creative technology and conference design give him a rare blend of visual craft and technical delivery.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Web Design & New Media, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Web Design & New Media at Academy of Art UniversityFoundation degree Art & Design / Graphic Design, Foundation degree Art & Design / Graphic Design at Kingston University
Github Skills (52)
asynchronous10
lagom10
reactive10
kafka10
sbt10
akka10
slick10
paradox10
reactive-programming10
playframework10
database-access9
java9
scala9
polyglot9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rasummer/cloudstate
Apr 2020 - May 2024
Towards Serverless 2.0
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
serverlessaws-lambdaawsserverless-frameworklambda
lightbend/antora-ui-lightbend-cloud-theme
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 review, 34 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.