Kevin Rutherford
Retired at Kevin Rutherford
Prestbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKevin Rutherford is a retired software leader and agile coach with 17 years of focused experience mentoring leaders, embedding agile practices, and teaching advanced TDD across UK organisations. He founded multiple community and commercial ventures—including XP-Manchester, AgileNorth, XP Surgery and Nuttshell—and has a track record of translating academic rigour (PhD in Computational Algebra) into practical software and team-level improvements. Previously a software development manager and senior principal scientist at Motorola, he combined deep technical coaching with delivery leadership across industries from defence to media. Known for hands-on embedded coaching rather than distant consultancy, he helped teams substantially improve quality and flow through test-first practices and sustained mentoring. Based in Prestbury, England, he now applies that long-form coaching perspective in retirement while staying connected to the agile and TDD communities.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Algebra, PhD Computational Algebra at University of St Andrews
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Github Skills (97)
ruby10
static-analysis10
data-science10
detector10
trust10
open-source10
redux10
parsing10
javascript9
coverage9
pair-programming9
react-draft-wysiwyg9
facebook9
flux-architecture9
react9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xpsurgery/silent-trivia
Feb 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
kevinrutherford/rookery-views
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 532 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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