Richard Olivey
Lead Web Developer at Oyster Marketing & Design
Portsmouth, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Olivey is a Lead Web Developer with over a decade of commercial experience specializing in PHP and Drupal across versions 5–11, delivering fully responsive, multi-domain and multilingual sites. He combines front-end craftsmanship (SASS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap/susy) with back-end module development and Unix server administration to own projects end-to-end. His career spans agency and enterprise work, maintaining dozens of custom Drupal modules and integrating sites with email and payment gateways for brands like Wiggle and TUI properties. Known for mentoring juniors and shepherding projects from design to launch, he brings practical UX sensibility to technical builds. Based in Portsmouth, Richard pairs steady legacy-Drupal expertise with up-to-date responsive toolchains and version control best practices. An attention to maintainability and cross-version Drupal upgrades makes him especially valuable on long-running platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels Mathematics, Electronics, Computing, A-Levels Mathematics, Electronics, Computing at Fareham CollegeBEng Hons Computer Enginering, BEng Hons Computer Enginering at University of PortsmouthBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Portsmouth University
English
Github Skills (14)
pantheon8
wordpress7
drupal7
nodejs6
dotnet6
php6
laravel6
lando6
ruby5
python5
docker5
javascript4
typescript3
postcss1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oliveyrc/richard.olivey.net
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
oliveyrc/orbit_banner
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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