Kate Richardson
Engineering Lead Principal Software Engineer - Food Discovery at Just Eat Takeaway.com
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Richardson is a principal software engineer and engineering lead with 11 years of experience building high-availability, low-latency services for consumer platforms, currently leading a team at Just Eat Takeaway.com focused on dish-based, ML-driven recommendations. She combines deep expertise in C#, .NET Core and AWS with practical experience operating machine learning models in production, designing data pipelines and building performant APIs under real-time constraints. Her background spans both front-end and back-end stacks (NodeJS, AngularJS/Aurelia, SQL/NoSQL) and strong DevOps practices including CI, DynamoDB, Redis and SQS/SNS. As an engineering lead she owns architecture, delivery and cross-functional collaboration while still contributing hands-on code and mentoring engineers. Notably she has experience migrating large consumer platforms, running core order flows on-call, and solving the subtle operational challenges of serving ML recommendations at scale. Based in Germany, she brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach (BDD/TDD, Selenium, SpecFlow) to shipping resilient systems that drive business value.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Combined Studies, 2:1 Combined Studies at The University of ManchesterMsc Web Applications Development, Msc Web Applications Development at Leeds Beckett University
English, German
Github Skills (11)
zendesk-api10
fluent-interface10
wrapper10
netcoreapp10
api-client9
api9
zendesk9
csharp8
apply7
testing2
http-server1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
katewritescode/JustEat.RecruitmentTest
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
The recruitment test to apply for an engineering role at Just Eat
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
eatrecruitment-testrecruitmentapplyengineering
justeat/ZendeskApiClient
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
C# Client for working with the Zendesk API
Contributions:36 commits in 1 year 3 months
api-clientapizendeskzendesk-apinetcoreapp
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