Rich James
Chief Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich James is a seasoned cloud technology leader and Chief Engineer with over two decades of experience building web, desktop, mobile and serverless systems across financial services and enterprise domains. He has held executive technical leadership roles at Nationwide and Lloyds Banking Group, where he drives multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) platform design, digital transformation and complex DevOps initiatives. Known for pioneering an enterprise Jamstack implementation (Sitecore, NextJS, Uniform) that produced one of Europe’s top-performing CX sites, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic program delivery. An expert Azure technologist, DAPR contributor and dotnet/react enthusiast, he combines recruiting, mentoring and culture-building with rigorous lifecycle and platform thinking. Based in Bath, England, Rich brings a pragmatic emphasis on open source and modern architectures to large regulated organisations, often turning experimental patterns into production-grade services.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of SussexBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics Engineering at University of Brighton
Github Skills (40)
sitecore9
sink9
cosmosdb9
blob-storage9
mongodb9
dapr8
partitioning8
kafka8
redis8
development-kit7
sitecore-jss7
javascript7
vue7
react7
angular7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
richgo/microfrontends-k8s
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
richgo/micro-frontend-basic
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
A basic implementation of micro-frontends using NextJs zones and federated Apollo GraphQL
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
reactfrontendsmicro-frontendszonesgraphql
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