Rich Mcintyre
VP Consulting Expert - CTO, Leeds BU at CGI
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Mcintyre is a seasoned technology leader and VP/CTO-level executive with 15+ years of experience building and scaling world-class software teams and platforms from Leeds. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (PHP, Node.js, JS front-ends) with strategic architecture work—re-architecting large sales platforms at Sky and driving microservices, GraphQL and messaging adoption. Proven at growing engineering culture and leaders, he’s hired and line-managed large multi-site teams, introduced DevOps practices, and coached teams in TDD/BDD and agile delivery. An active contributor to notable open-source projects (e.g., Lithium framework and Phinx), he brings pragmatic improvements to core libraries and database adapters that increase test coverage and operational flexibility. He excels at translating business needs into performant, maintainable platforms while mentoring engineers to raise craftsmanship across the organisation. Based in Leeds, he’s known for blending deep technical craft with strong stakeholder influence and a knack for spotting architectural opportunity others miss.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of the Nations
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,162reputation
148kreached
17answers
9questions
drupal
top-5%
Github Skills (31)
database-migrations10
unit-testing10
application-framework10
javascript10
sqlite10
testing10
app-framework10
databases10
android-applications10
php10
android-application10
web-framework10
database-migration10
phinx10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UnionOfRAD/lithium
Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
li₃ is the fast, flexible and most RAD development framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily focused on enhancing the environment detection capabilities within the Lithium framework. They added and refined environment detection logic, particularly for test environments and console applications, improving the framework's flexibility. Their work involved modifying core Lithium files, including `Environment.php`, `Dispatcher.php`, and `Command.php`, to recognize and adapt to different operational contexts. In addition, the user addressed a variety of bugs, with the contributions focused on testing and fixing functionality related to data exporting.
phpradframeworkdevelopment-frameworkphp-framework
bbc/tal
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
TV Application Layer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the user interface layer of the TV Application Layer. Their work involved updating and correcting potential encoding issues within the application's code, specifically concerning the loading of external stylesheets. Further contributions included the addition of 'use strict' directives to several JavaScript files across various widgets and devices and, subsequently, addressing JSHinting issues. The user also made updates concerning horizontal carousel compatibility.
lgwebosjavascriptbroadcasttelevision
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