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George Richards, fullstack engineer and technical lead

Five weeks is a product.Three sprints is a platform.12 years is a residency.

15 roles · 14 organisations · 12 sectors

Bristol · remote or hybrid

12 years, 9 months · 6 lead roles

14Organisations
12Sectors
12 years 9 monthsIn the industry
6Lead roles

Highlights

The Run

Dec 2013 → Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mo

Mr Zen

Front-End Web Developer

Agency · permanent · Farnham

Trainee to Lead Front-End Developer, promoted within 3 months

Assisted with the design and development of the mountain excursion site Mountain Tracks.

  • • Joined as Trainee Front-End Developer; promoted within 3 months
  • • Progressed to Lead Front-End Developer, delivering new projects and maintaining live sites
  • • Gained early experience across the full development lifecycle in a small team
AngularJSJoomlaSketch

Apr 2017 → Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mo

Wowcher

Angular Engineer

E-commerce · permanent · London

Rebuilt the user account area to improve experience and retention; led the development effort.

  • • Delivered a revamped user profile area with the product team
  • • Worked within a 30+ person cross-functional tech team
AngularJSCSS ModulesSketch

Jul 2018 → Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mo

Bloom & Wild

Angular Engineer

E-commerce · permanent · London

Rebuilt the entire purchase journey for a household DTC brand: homepage, product page, checkout. The analytics team pointed at every pain point before a line was written.

  • • Small cross-functional squad focused on customer growth and retention
  • • Revamped end-to-end purchasing journey: homepage, product page, booking flow
  • • Worked with data analytics to identify and address UX pain points
  • • Published a Medium article on CSS structure and naming convention
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Jan 2020 → Apr 2020 · 3 mo

Babylon Health

Web Developer

Healthtech · contract · London

  • • Componentised Babylon's clinical portal to support SaaS rollout
  • • Migrated legacy components into modular packages
  • • Designed flexible config structures
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Apr 2020 → Jul 2020 · 3 mo

Holiday Fox

Tech Lead

Travel · contract · remote

  • • Tech Lead on partner-facing portal for a holiday search startup
  • • Led a global remote team against tight product deadlines
  • • Focused on GraphQL integration and app architecture evolution
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Sep 2020 → Oct 2020 · 5 weeks

Joe Wicks / The Body Coach

Web Developer · ustwo

Fitness · contract

Joe Wicks' Body Coach, greenfield, live in a five-week build window. A national name with a hard launch date and no existing codebase to lean on.

  • • Built Joe Wicks' The Body Coach site in a 5-week greenfield project
  • • Delivered at pace alongside a small frontend team at ustwo
  • • Contributed to a high-quality launch in a fast-moving environment
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Dec 2020 → Nov 2021 · 11 mo

LiveMore Capital

Tech Lead

Fintech · permanent · London

Replaced a legacy marketing site with a modern stack in three sprints, as a direct swap. Those foundations let LiveMore run fast marketing pushes afterwards.

  • • Tech Lead at a fast-growing mortgage startup
  • • Rebuilt the legacy marketing site in 3 sprints using a modern stack
  • • Laid foundations for a scalable, marketing-driven platform
  • • Helped form the in-house development team
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Nov 2021 → Jan 2022 · 2 mo

Canvas8

Web Developer

Research · contract

  • • Improved UI and functionality of the onboarding flow
  • • Worked with Next.js, Sanity CMS (GROQ) and CSS Modules
  • • Improved the customer journey
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Jan 2022 → Apr 2022 · 3 mo

Untangle

Fractional CTO

Community · contract

  • • Oversaw architecture and UI design
  • • Led AWS partner migration and performance/SEO audits
  • • Delivered deep analytics and transitioned to a new community platform
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May 2022 → Feb 2023 · 9 mo

Bright Sites

Frontend Engineer and Mentor

Agency · contract

  • • Frontend engineer and mentor at an agency building in-house CMS and news sites for multiple publishers
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Feb 2023 → Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mo

Bright Sites

Technical Lead

Agency · contract

  • • Tech Lead at an agency building in-house CMS and news sites for multiple publishers
  • • Led 3 development teams; collaborated with the CTO on architectural improvements
  • • Worked across Node, React (TypeScript), Next.js and Express
  • • Implemented modern tooling for styling, bundling and state management
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Oct 2024 → Dec 2024 · 2 mo

Userled

Product Engineer

SaaS · contract · London · remote

  • • Rebuilt the SDK and inbound system from scratch
  • • Worked to high-fidelity designs and structured data models
  • • Built full stack: APIs through to frontend UI
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Dec 2024 → Jun 2025 · 6 mo

AMC

Team Lead · Econify

Streaming · contract · Birmingham · remote

Led a multi-disciplinary team on AMC's white-labelled streaming platform: engineering, sprint planning, solution design and release management.

  • • Led a multi-disciplinary team on AMC's white-labelled streaming platform
  • • Managed engineering, sprint planning, prioritisation and solution designs
  • • Ran Scrum ceremonies in 2-week cycles
  • • Guided product decisions and release management
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Jul 2025 → Sep 2025 · 2 mo

Netflix

Product Engineer · Powster

Entertainment · contract · London · hybrid

Sole frontend engineer on a Netflix site rebuild, against a tight schedule and someone else's bespoke CMS.

  • • Delivered a website rebuild for Netflix on a tight schedule
  • • Sole frontend developer assigned to the project
  • • Quick feedback loops and regular catchups with the in-house design team
  • • Built pages and components using Powster's bespoke CMS
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Sep 2025 → Current · 1 yr

Deaku

Lead Fullstack Engineer

Creator tools · permanent · Bristol · remote

Founding technical lead: the product, the mobile app and the engineering practice all built from nothing, now integrating AI agent fleets.

  • • Built a suite of tools for content creators: documents, realtime messaging and collaboration
  • • Built the mobile app from scratch with Expo
  • • Optimised performance across web and mobile
  • • Implemented security policies across the platform
  • • Ran technical recruitment: profile reviews, interview prep, tech tests
  • • Managed the development lifecycle, including CI/CD
  • • Integrated AI agent fleets into the platform
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Now

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Before all that

Started in IT support in 2011 at Keystone Legal Benefits and Alemba, then moved into front-end development at Mr Zen in 2013 as a trainee. Promoted inside three months.

Skiing

The feeling of freedom as you're hurtling down the side of a snowy mountain is unbeatable. Currently working on my off-piste and park skills.

Music Production

Casually producing since college. Released a few songs on Soundcloud, including a couple used in a short film.