Richard Craggs
Professor Of Computer Science And Dean Of Personal Tutoring at University of Leicester
North West Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Craggs is a seasoned academic technologist and software leader with 13 years of formal experience and a career spanning industry and higher education. Currently Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Personal Tutoring at the University of Leicester, he combines leadership in learning and teaching with hands-on quality assurance work for the Office for Students. His background includes heading software engineering teams, release and configuration management, and technology consultancy, giving him a rare blend of operational delivery and pedagogical insight. Richard is skilled at translating complex technical and organisational requirements into robust processes that support both student outcomes and product quality. Based in North West Leicestershire, he is known for fostering lifelong learning in students while driving continual improvement in software engineering practices. An imaginative problem-solver, he often bridges academic research, governance and practical engineering to deliver measurable institutional impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (58)
codeception10
testing9
injection9
unit-testing9
phpunit9
acceptance-testing9
bdd9
php9
integration-testing9
deprecated9
kotlin8
task-list8
android-library8
android8
kotlin-multiplatform8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcraggs/gitruler
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 releases, 61 commits, 32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
rcraggs/mvna
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 13 pushes in 9 months
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