Mark Richards
Hands-on Software Architect, Founder Of DeveloperToArchitect.com at O'Reilly Media
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolMark Richards is a hands-on software architect and founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com with four decades of experience designing and implementing microservices, SOA, and distributed systems—primarily in financial services. He blends practical architecture and implementation expertise with prolific authorship for O'Reilly, including titles like Software Architecture: The Hard Parts and several microservices books. As an independent consultant and frequent conference speaker and trainer, he turns complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions and has guided teams from code-level design to organization-wide architecture. Mark's career spans senior architecture roles at IBM and Collaborative Consulting and leadership as a chief architect, giving him deep experience in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Based in Greater Boston, he also mentors developers transitioning into architecture through free resources on his site, reflecting a commitment to sharing hard-won lessons. An unexpected strength is his longevity in the field—starting in 1983—which provides rare historical perspective on how distributed systems and architectural patterns have evolved.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Northern Arizona UniversityMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Boston University
English
Github Skills (10)
rabbitmq10
cqrs10
architecture9
event-sourcing9
reactive-programming9
reactive9
caching9
nodejs8
typescript8
microservices6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wmr513/reactive
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
Reactive Architecture Patterns from NFJS Sessions
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 6 months
event-sourcingreactive-architecturenfjsarchitecture-patternscqrs
wmr513/caching
Jul 2018 - Feb 2022
Source code from my microservices caching session at NFJS
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 3 years 8 months
nfjscachingnodejsmicroservices
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