Dan Richards
Principal Engineer at Runware
Greater Bournemouth Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Richards is a Principal Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing resilient cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and developer tooling for global-scale live services. He has led architectural initiatives and engineering strategy across consultancy and product teams—most recently in multiplayer and live-service infrastructure where reliability, observability, and operational excellence are paramount. Dan combines deep technical execution (Kubernetes, microservices, AWS/GCP/Azure) with people leadership, mentoring engineers and aligning technical direction to business goals. His background includes modernising large legacy platforms into cloud-native, Kubernetes-driven architectures and driving platform patterns used across international e-commerce and games ecosystems. Based in the Greater Bournemouth area, he brings both consultancy breadth and product-stage depth, with a particular focus on building sustainable engineering systems that let teams move fast without accumulating technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Wadebridge SchoolA Level, Maths, Physics, History, Computing, A Level, Maths, Physics, History, Computing at Truro CollegeWadebridge Primary SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (72)
go10
redis10
unity2d9
playfab9
neo4j9
database-migration9
pagerduty9
databases9
aws-s39
migration9
lumen9
cassandra9
mongodb9
unity3d8
database8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danmrichards/chip8
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
LUSHDigital/microservice-core
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
A set of core functionality and convenience classes for a Lumen microservice
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
microservicesframeworklaravellumenmicroservice
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