Roland Whitehead
Technical Coordinator - Circular Revolution
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoland Whitehead is a design-led technology leader with 13 years of software-focused experience and a long career bridging product design, enterprise IT and open source engineering. As Technical Coordinator for Riversimple’s Circular Revolution he combines hands-on development of blockchain-based, circular-economy tools with strategic R&D partnerships at Swansea and Exeter. Previously he founded and ran Quru—delivering open source enterprise systems and integrations for banks, retailers and R&D centres—and led a major digital transformation as CIO/CTO at Bonhams. Trained as a naval architect and product designer (BSc, DIC, MDes), he brings unusual cross-disciplinary fluency that informs pragmatic, user-centred technical solutions. An active open-source advocate and mentor, he has a track record of turning physical-product thinking into resilient software and systems. Based in Horsham, UK, he specializes in applying design thinking to sustainable, circular technologies.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Eton CollegeMDes (RCA), MDes (RCA) at Royal College of ArtDIC, DIC at Imperial College LondonBSc, BSc at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (34)
privacy10
network-service10
hosting10
image-server8
responsive-images8
image-gallery8
image8
management7
bluez6
fabric6
bluetooth6
bandwidth6
autoconf6
linux6
bash6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kinna-music/kinna-music.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 49 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 3 months
katiewalkerfurniture/katiewalkerfurniture.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:158 pushes in 11 years 3 months
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