Rich Sage
Squadron Leader at Royal Air Force Air Cadets
Arun, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Sage is a Squadron Leader and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years' experience building data platforms and integrations across Azure, Databricks, and .NET ecosystems. He has driven platform consolidation, MDM and cloud-native data architectures at scale for organisations like Costa Coffee while combining hands-on engineering with delivery leadership and cost-optimisation. A pragmatic technologist, Rich contributes to open-source projects—from PHP APIs to enhancing the Terraform AzureRM provider—demonstrating deep backend skills in Go, PHP and C#. He also architects secure, compliant systems and has led ISO-aligned technical practices and offshore teams to improve delivery velocity. Volunteering as a Cadet Forces Commission holder, he brings proven people leadership and large-event logistics experience beyond his day job. He pairs an unusual background in music and electronic engineering with practical cloud and DevOps craftsmanship, making him comfortable translating complex requirements into reliable production systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Portable Music Visualisation, MA, Portable Music Visualisation at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (38)
ajax10
ios10
apidoc10
testing10
formatting10
authentication10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
regular-expression10
terraformer10
php10
go10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
richsage/RMSPushNotificationsBundle
May 2012 - Jun 2017
NOT MAINTAINED! ⛔️ Push notifications/messages for mobile devices. Supports iOS, Android (C2DM, GCM), Blackberry and Windows Mobile (toast only). A Symfony2 bundle.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits, 31 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the development of a push notification bundle, building out the core functionality for sending notifications to various mobile platforms. Their work involved creating services, implementing interfaces, and integrating with platform-specific notification services like C2DM (Android) and APNs (iOS). Key contributions include establishing the architecture for handling different OS types and implementing Android and iOS specific sending mechanisms. The user also refactored the codebase to use Buzz for HTTP requests.
pushwindowsbundleios-androidpush-notifications
joindin/joindin-api
Jul 2013 - Dec 2015
The Joind.in API PHP Application
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the Joind.in API PHP application, focusing on back-end development tasks. Their work included fixing undefined variable notices, resolving ambiguous SQL column names, and adding unit tests. Key contributions involved adding event attendance API calls, including implementing the necessary database interactions and controller logic. The user also added the ability to add private talk comments, and added functionalities for token authentication.
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