Rich Allen
Fast Flow Facilitator
Greater Bournemouth Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Allen is a delivery-focused software leader and entrepreneur based in the Greater Bournemouth area, blending two decades of hands-on engineering with a current emphasis on flow and team enablement as Fast Flow Facilitator at Conjurer Solutions and a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner. He has founded and led multiple ventures, including LeaveWizard and Developer South Coast, proving a knack for turning operational pain points into sustainable products and communities. Rich’s background ranges from senior engineering and team leadership to solutions architecture and consultancy across sectors like fitness, water, and SaaS, enabling him to bridge technical implementation and organisational design. He helps teams make delivery feel easier by applying pragmatic systems thinking, lean practices and team-first structures rather than silver-bullet tooling. An experienced public organiser and co-founder of learning-focused initiatives, Rich often surfaces soft constraints — communication patterns, team cognitive load and interaction modes — that are easy to miss but crucial to improving throughput.
5 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BEng (Hons) Microelectronics and Computing, 2:1 BEng (Hons) Microelectronics and Computing at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (31)
api-client9
candidate9
sdk9
api9
interaction9
thumb8
rest-api8
boundaries8
rest8
generator8
umbraco-v88
drawing8
umbraco-v78
heuristics8
diagramming8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
conjurer-rich/user-needs-mapping
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 228 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
conjurer-rich/Team-Shape-Templates
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Templates for popular drawing and diagramming tools to represent the team types and team interaction modes in Team Topologies
Contributions:1 release, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
interactiondiagrammingmodestopologiesdrawing
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