# Richard Collins > Senior Software Engineer at Point Digital Finance Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/richardcollins 10+ years’ commercial experience in front-end and full-stack development, with technologies including: • Front end: Javascript, TypeScript and Flow typing, React, Relay (with GraphQL), Redux • Back end: Go, Hack, Java, C#, C++, Node.js • Testing: Jest, Mocha, Ginkgo, Selenium • Web standards: HTML, CSS, cross-browser support and support for legacy browsers. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Point Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, CA • Developing and maintaining customer-facing application flows. • Translating Figma designs into high-quality, accessible user interfaces in collaboration with Design and Product. • Acting as frontend tech lead, mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices. Key achievements: • Built and iterated on high-visibility customer-facing features and pages, including the offer page and dashboard experiences, used across the entire customer base. • Spearheaded the adoption of A/B testing, partnering closely with data teams to define actionable metrics and establish experimentation as a standard decision-making tool. • Led adoption of feature flags as a release strategy, enabling safer incremental rollouts and reducing reliance on large, long-lived feature branches. • Established schema-driven API contracts across multiple services using the TypeSpec schema language, with TypeScript and Zod code generation providing both compile-time and runtime validation. • Led migration from Jest/JSDom tests of UI components to Playwright browser-based testing, significantly improving DX for writing and debugging tests, and also introduced Playwright screenshot tests, for maintainable visual regression testing. • Optimized RTK Query caching and invalidation strategies to reduce post-request UI latency and improve perceived application performance. • Created and maintained a widely-adopted internal Chrome extension to simplify and speed up manual testing and exploration of our product. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, CA • Developing and maintaining features for Meta’s internal task and project management platform, used daily by 80,000+ employees and contractors. • Collaborating with Design to build accessible, high-quality user experiences. • Mentoring junior engineers and onboarded new team members. Key achievements: • Built the interactive timeline feature for Meta’s new internal project management platform, developing a versatile Gantt chart component that was later adopted by multiple teams for their own tools. • Led a major overhaul of the task details panel, modernizing both the codebase and the UI, significantly improving code maintainability, user experience, and accessibility compliance. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Osmo Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA • Leading frontend development of the company’s product and e-commerce website • Collaborating closely with Design, Product, and stakeholders, contributing technical feedback to shape user experience and implementation strategy. Key achievements: • Built and launched high-impact marketing and product pages in support of major product releases, consistently meeting very strict deadlines. • Architected and implemented the site’s shopping and checkout flows from the ground up. • Developed a custom internationalization framework enabling scalable translation of the website into multiple locales. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California Working in the Payments team on the Merchant Center and Wallet sites. Key achievements: • A complete rewrite of the front-end of Merchant Center, producing a new, responsive UI with clean, modular Javascript, fully tested through component unit tests and browser tests. • Launched the new Bills and accounts page on wallet.google.com. ## Education ### BA in Mathematics with Computer Science, Mathematics University of Cambridge ### MMath (Master of Mathematics) University of Cambridge ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richardejcollins --- Source: https://flows.cv/richardcollins JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/richardcollins/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22