Mark Richards
Principal Engineer at Marks Software Limited
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Richards is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and rescuing high-performance, data-intensive systems that serve billions and process petabytes at millisecond scale. He blends hands-on engineering, architecture and leadership—having driven cloud adoption, SRE, and product ownership across industries from media and retail to pharma and fintech. Mark has a track record of multi-thousand-fold performance wins, multimillion-pound cost savings, and restoring reliability to legacy platforms while standing trusted in production incidents. He runs a consultancy, has led platform foundations work (security, IAM, API and data architecture) at companies like Kaluza and Ticketmaster, and repeatedly builds small, impactful POCs that become team-owned products. Unusually, his background includes clinical study management and retail experience, which shapes a pragmatic focus on business stakeholders as well as technical excellence.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (75)
declarative10
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
streaming9
raspberry-pi-zero9
standardization9
payment-request-api9
html8
charts8
agile8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
markalanrichards/our-privacy
Jul 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
markalanrichards/privacy-assessment
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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