Richard Ruff
About Me
I'm a Freelance Web Developer working in Leeds as Owner and Director of Code Train Ltd. I work with clients to build custom web applications which meet their individual needs.
As well as web development, I've spent much of my career in data visualization, industrialisation, and business intelligence roles. I present actionable insight beautifully, and get systems with millions of rows working together in harmony under the bonnet.
I'm a serial skill-stacker who's aggressively learning new technologies, languages and frameworks. Outside the office I love to dance.
Employment History
Code Train Ltd
Director / Developer Feb 2020 - Present
Freelance Web Developer and Owner / Director of Code Train Ltd. Working with clients to build bespoke web solutions to improve their sales and make running their business easier.
Barclays UK
Senior Data Visualisation Developer
Getting datasets with millions of rows joined together from systems across the organisation. Data storytelling through beautiful, fast dashboards with actionable insight. I left Barclays in February 2020.
Equiniti Ltd
Task Controller
Development of a contact management database; automating external communications management activities; routine data management and account reconciliation activities. I left Equiniti in July 2011.
Web Projects
Music History
A simple web application which displays your recent playback history on your Spotify account.
This is a simple project I built because I wanted an easy way to find the songs I'd played recently and at the time Spotify didn't have a very useful way to find it, but the information about the last 50 songs that have been played is available through the Spotify API.
The project uses a NodeJS back end with PostgreSQL and React in the front end. The project is hosted with Linode.
IRL Projects
Swing Renegades
West Coast Swing Dancing School
Started in 2017, Swing Renegades is the dance school teaching West Coast Swing, a modern partner dance in West Yorkshire.