About
I'm Rich, a seasoned user centric Tech Lead & Solution Architect I take pleasure in shaping exceptional digital experiences. My dedication to my craft has led me to shape and create strategic visions across a broad spectrum of industries.
A cross-functional team builder and mentor, creating and leading engineering teams, adept at operating across multiple stakeholder groups and territories.
Key Career Summaries
2021 — Now
Technical Architect & Engineering Lead
UXD Limited | remote
Delivered long-term senior technical solutions for enterprise and scale-up clients across financial services, SaaS, automotive, and media, working with both UK and international clients.
Created and owned progressive and commercially viable greenfield architecture across security, data and engineering environments, ensuring solutions are production-ready, maintainable and aligned to commercial priorities.
2019 - 2021
Tech Lead
UXD Limited | remote
Worked with CTO’s, stakeholders, design, and tech teams to lead end-to-end delivery from discovery and UX collaboration through build, release and support, operating confidently across stakeholder and delivery teams.
Designed and delivered secure, scalable web applications, SaaS platforms and supporting APIs with strong focus on UX consistency, performance, and reusability across channels.
Hands-on technical leadership and team mentoring to design and integrate service-driven architectures, connecting third-party platforms, internal services, and cloud-first backends.
2018 - 2019
Tech Lead & Senior Principle Application Engineer
Oracle Data Cloud | onsite
Directed multiple cross‑functional development teams as Tech Lead and SCRUM Master, establishing tech stacks, Agile practices, and delivering Big Data UIs. Drove international collaboration across the USA and Israel, initiating a Global Developer Exchange Programme
2016 - 2018
Lead Application Developer
Raacom Ltd | remote
Architected and implemented scalable, data‑driven frontends and supporting services (React, TypeScript, Node, Python/Django) with strong focus on usability and performance.
Partnered with product owners and stakeholders to shape requirements, define technical plans and deliver visually rich, data‑centric demos and applications.
2011 - 2015
Senior Application Developer
Raacom Ltd | hybrid
Owned design & build of web, kiosk, and DOOH apps across automotive, financial services, media, and public sectors.
Delivered real‑time, data‑driven tools and immersive brand experiences, combining clear data visualisation with high‑impact UI engineering.
Collaborated with designers and business stakeholders to refine concepts, define architecture and ensure maintainable, production‑ready solutions.
2011
Lead UX/UI Developer & Project Lead
Everlution Software
Developed an educational reward app allowing teachers to award merits points on a whiteboard app, print certificates and filter students.
Student app for building custom avatars (reward powered) save, print, edit and update in real-time.
Additional bespoke video viewer and live commenting system using FMS, Facebook and databases.
Launched nationally in primary schools with lead to US market
