Richard Lawrence
Product Leadership Coach, Founder at Humanizing Work
Hotchkiss, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Lawrence is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16 years of experience guiding teams through Agile transformations and delivering high-quality software at speed. As founder of Humanizing Work and a Product & Leadership Coach, he helps organizations improve collaboration, ROI, and employee and customer happiness through Scrum, XP, Lean, and psychology-informed practices. He is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, and co-author of "Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber" (Addison-Wesley, 2019). A hands-on contributor to cucumber-ruby, he shaped core logic, CLI options, runtime support, and AST, underscoring deep technical breadth alongside coaching. His multidisciplinary background in anthropology and intercultural studies informs his approach to change, collaboration, and organizational culture, while leadership roles at Avanade and as a conference organizer demonstrate scale-minded execution. Based in Hotchkiss, Colorado, he combines practical engineering depth with a founder's strategic perspective.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Work (All but thesis) International Studies, Graduate Work (All but thesis) International Studies at University of Denver
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
cucumber10
ruby10
gherkin9
build-automation8
bdd6
rspec6
specflow6
tdd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Jun 2011 - Oct 2011
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the core logic and structure of the Cucumber-Ruby project. The commits involve modifications to core Ruby files, including the CLI options, runtime support code, step definitions, and AST. Code changes include updates to the Table class, integration of features, and support code within the project.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
richardlawrence/Cuke4Nuke
Aug 2009 - Jun 2011
Contributions:153 commits in 1 year 9 months
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