Draft:Rich Harris

Rich Harris is a British web developer and award winning interactive journalist. He created the web technologies Svelte and rollup. He previously worked for The Guardian as a front-end developer creating interactive articles. He also worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times in a similar role. He is now employed by Vercel to develop Svelte full time.

Career
Rich Harris graduated from UCL with a BA in philosophy.. He initially worked for Citywire as a financial reporter, video journalist, and web producer. He then worked for The Guardian's UK interactive team, which collectively won an Emmy. He is now employed by Vercel (an American cloud platform) to develop Svelte full time

Svelte
Svelte was based on an earlier creation of Rich Harris known as Ractive.js, a tool he created at The Guardian for the creation of interactive news stories. It has since been repeatedly ranked as one of the most 'admired and desired' web frameworks in the Stack Overflow developer survey.

Rollup
rollup is a JavaScript module bundler created by Rich Harris. As of the 10th of June, 2024, the project has 24,936 stars on GitHub.