Matt Richards
Frontend Developer at IBM
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Richards is a seasoned Frontend Developer based in London with over a decade of focused front-end experience and more than twenty years in the web industry, blending hands-on coding with team and project leadership. He has driven polished, intuitive user experiences across startups and large organisations—from Quidco where he progressed to Head of Front End, to recent roles at Front Office AI, Middlesex University and now IBM. Comfortable in both contractor and permanent settings, he brings pragmatic delivery, mentoring experience and a knack for turning complex requirements into clean, usable interfaces. Known for being affable and hardworking, he pairs deep front-end instincts with a calm leadership style that helps teams ship reliable products. An early computer science graduate, he quietly bridges traditional web craftsmanship with modern frontend practices.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (5)
zxcvbn9
jquery-plugin7
twitter7
bootstrap6
bug-tracker4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mttrchrds/bootstrap-password-strength-meter
Dec 2015 - Oct 2019
A simple jQuery plugin to display strength of user's password using Twitter Bootsrap components and zxcvbn.
Contributions:6 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
bootstrapjquery-plugintwitterzxcvbn
mttrchrds/background-transition
Nov 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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