Richard Ware
Software Engineering Manager at FreeWheel
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Ware is a software engineering manager and hands-on .NET developer with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping production software from London. He progressed from developer to technical lead at Strata/Adazzle and now manages engineering at FreeWheel, blending technical leadership with day-to-day coding. Richard has a strong front-end track record as an active contributor to the popular adazzle/react-data-grid project, where he improved IE9 compatibility, performance, async autocomplete, drag-and-drop, and tests. He holds a Master’s in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London and brings a practical, performance-focused approach to UI and data-intensive features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs legacy compatibility concerns with modern refactors to keep systems both reliable and forward-looking.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Information Systems Engineering, Masters, Information Systems Engineering at Imperial College LondonSutton Grammar School
German, English
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
testing8
css7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adazzle/react-data-grid
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Feature-rich and customizable data grid React component
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 18 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the React-based data grid component. Their work involved fixing bugs related to IE9 compatibility and the number of rows displayed. They refactored code, optimized the grid's performance, and added new features such as an async autocomplete editor and drag-and-drop functionality. The user also made contributions to testing and updated the project's dependencies.
grid-layoutfeature-richreact-griddatagridreact-data-grid
richardware/md5
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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