Roy Barber
Head Of Engineering (Development) at Umbraco
Bassetlaw, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Barber is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience who currently heads Development at Happydance, driving AI-driven platform initiatives and automation while championing customer success. He has a strong frontend and design systems pedigree from roles leading teams at dotcentric and Umbraco’s Headless Community, combining accessibility-first UI expertise with practical component-driven development. As a founder and former agency director, he brings entrepreneurial instincts—launching and exiting products and businesses—and a proven track record of translating product discovery into production-ready solutions. Roy excels at cross-functional collaboration across design, DevOps, and support to accelerate delivery and innovation, and he embeds a customer-centric “Defenders of Happiness” ethos into engineering practice. Based in Bassetlaw, UK, he is self-taught and notable for bridging hands-on development with strategic leadership, often focusing on pragmatic, reusable systems rather than one-off builds.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
Stackoverflow
172reputation
65kreached
8answers
15questions
Github Skills (162)
cms10
javascript-client10
starter-kit10
parallax10
testing10
payloadcms10
swagger10
ruby-client10
rest-api10
openapi10
forestry10
javascript10
netlify-cli10
gulp10
devtools10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
roybarber/roybarber
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
roybarber/vite-static-starter
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Vite + Tailwind 3 + Vue 3 SFC + Handlebars + Layouts + Components. Speed up your development with a complete and scalable super simple vite based build system that scaffolds the project for you. Just focus on your code.
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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