Richard Hart Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

Accountable for News UK’s (The Times & Sunday Times, The Sun, TLS and Wireless) Subscriptions, Payments, Identity, and Paywall platforms. Leading a multi-disciplinary team of 70 individuals across the UK, Europe, and India, I manage a multi-million-pound budget. Working closely with the commercial teams, I define the long-term strategic view for the platform. I also oversee the Salesforce implementation used by our call centres in the UK.

London, Gb

London, Greater London, Gb

Reporting directly to the CTO, I had overall technical accountability for Which?’s websites, mobile apps, data and platform APIs, and Salesforce/Zuora/Zephr integrations.I set the technical strategy and direction for engineering and worked closely with the Head of Product to deliver the product vision. I managed a multi-million-pound budget and led a team of 40+ individuals while retaining a diverse team and fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture.Part of my responsibility was to ensure we had the right processes and frameworks to support individuals and the team, such as creating a progression framework and a process for managing performance and self-development.Tech stack included Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS, RDS, Docker, Salesforce, and Zuora.

London, Greater London, Gb

Responsible for the technical architecture, implementation, and delivery of numerous projects. While setting the vision and long-term strategy for Which?’s Backend API services, I also led a team of seven engineers in London and three in Bulgaria, Tech stack included Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Ktor, AWS, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, Salesforce, and Zuora.

London, Greater London, Gb

As part of a newly formed team, I built and launched a new microservices content publishing platform.Tech stack included Ruby on Rails, AWS, Redis and MySQL.

Ruby on Rails Consultancy specialising in ecommerce. I worked as a contract Ruby on Rails Engineer for several organisations, including Hive Home (British Gas), Zopa, Rentify, and LoveLula.

Publisha was a cross-platform publishing business co-founded with two others. I worked as a hands-on CTO, responsible for technical strategy and delivery. I collaborated on continually refining our pitch deck and participated in numerous V.C. meetings.

London, England, Gb

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