Richard Summerhayes
Director Of Technology at VSSL Agency
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Summerhayes is a seasoned frontend developer and digital-experience leader with over 12 years of experience delivering end-to-end customer experiences across marketing, design, and engineering. Based in San Francisco, he has driven web and documentation strategy at Lightbend, implementing a cohesive brand theme with Antora and elevating developer experience through consistent design and dark/light mode support. He spearheaded a Marketo-to-Pardot migration to tighten Salesforce integration and built scalable templates for landing pages and campaigns, empowering marketing teams to iterate rapidly. His work on GDPR privacy compliance and cookie consent across 12+ properties, plus complex scheduling and registration workflows for major conferences, shows a rare blend of frontend craft and system-level thinking. With a BA in Web Design & New Media and hands-on experience spanning AI tooling and design systems, he couples creative depth with practical, scalable delivery.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Web Design & New Media, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Web Design & New Media, Cum Laude at Academy of Art UniversityFoundation degree, Art & Design / Graphic Design, Foundation degree, Art & Design / Graphic Design at Kingston University
Github Skills (58)
database-access10
reactive10
sbt10
akka10
slick10
php10
paradox10
high-performance10
streaming10
play-framework9
dsl9
lagom9
concurrent9
java9
scala9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reactivemanifesto/reactive-principles
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:128 commits, 4 PRs, 79 pushes in 4 months
rasummer/cloudstate
Apr 2020 - May 2024
Towards Serverless 2.0
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
serverlessaws-lambdaawsserverless-frameworklambda
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