Richard Forrest
Head Of Engineering at Health Call Solutions
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Forrest is a pragmatic engineering leader with 14+ years building high-performance web applications, APIs and cloud platforms, currently heading Engineering at Health Call Solutions after leading acquisition-driven technical due diligence and a cost-saving platform migration. He combines deep .NET and Sitecore expertise with hands-on cloud and DevOps practice across Azure and AWS, and has a track record of architecting Helix-based Sitecore solutions at scale. Richard excels at recruiting and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams, shaping delivery processes, and turning complex legacy stacks into consolidated, cost-efficient platforms. He’s comfortable shifting between high-level strategy and coding—having built internal tooling (React/.NET) and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform—and brings a persistent curiosity for emerging tech and open source.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, Computer Science, 2:1, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterQueen Elizabeths High School Hexham
English
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Github Skills (83)
fallback10
architecture10
saas10
csharp10
updating10
dotnet9
clean-architecture9
angular9
blazor9
aggregates9
web-application9
asp-net-core9
transient9
asp-net9
polly9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
feanz/lhm.net
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:43 PRs, 65 pushes, 45 branches in 2 months
migratorms-sqlsql
feanz/prompt
Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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