Rich Bradshaw
Technical Director at Focal Strategy Ltd
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Bradshaw is a Technical Director with 16 years of hands-on engineering and product leadership experience, currently driving an AI-first strategy at Carsa to embed LLMs into developer and operations workflows. He combines deep technical fluency in TypeScript, serverless AWS architectures, and pragmatic data tooling with commercial judgment—leading a migration from a PHP monolith to a modern microservices stack while owning build-versus-buy decisions. Rich builds tooling that augments human decision-making (from GPT-powered customer assistants to AI coding aids) and has a track record of scaling bespoke software for fast-growing automotive businesses. He grew his own consultancy into a multi-engineer team, mentors engineers across technical and commercial skills, and brings a background in mathematics and physics that informs a data-driven approach to product decisions. An obsessive focus on business-led outcomes and software quality means his solutions prioritize measurable impact and long-term reliability.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics and Physics, BSc, Mathematics and Physics at University of BathPGCE Secondary Science, Science, PGCE Secondary Science, Science at South West Teacher TrainingBrockenhurst College
English
Stackoverflow
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812answers
146questions
mysql
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webkit
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caching
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animation
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fonts
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seo
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Github Skills (61)
javascript10
label10
fonts10
jquery10
safari10
css10
forms10
php10
font-face10
html10
internet-explorer10
mysql9
ipad9
image9
webkit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
focalstrategy/CSS-Transitions-Transforms-and-Animation
May 2010 - May 2012
Contributions:66 commits in 1 year 11 months
animationtransformationsanimationstransitions
mpatric/fizzbuzz
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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