Summary
Dominic Burford is a seasoned technical lead and architect with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering high-availability, cloud-scale enterprise applications across retail, fleet management and service management domains. Currently owning critical systems at Howdens that support thousands of designers and generate roughly 75% of the company's £2.1B revenue, he combines hands-on engineering with end-to-end delivery and quality assurance. He has a strong track record introducing DevOps pipelines, resilient distributed architectures (Azure Service Bus) and mobile solutions using Xamarin, as well as automating deployment processes like Octopus Deploy. An award-winning technical author, Dominic is equally comfortable producing high-quality documentation and mentoring teams while driving architectural change. Based in England, he brings practical, long-tenured experience integrating legacy systems with modern cloud practices to build durable, business-critical software.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Homefield School for Boys
Bachelor of Science, Computer Studies, Bachelor of Science, Computer Studies at Nottingham Trent University
Lincoln College