Richard Hughes
Solutions Architect at Sykes Holiday Cottages
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Hughes is a Solutions Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and scaling web and backend systems, currently shaping platform architecture at Sykes Holiday Cottages. He progressed internally from Software Developer to Lead Developer before taking on his current architect role, demonstrating deep product knowledge and a track record of driving technical evolution within a single business domain. His background spans Java, PHP, JavaScript, and relational database optimisation (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL), with practical experience integrating SOAP APIs and building large-data Java services. Known for bridging engineering and UX concerns, he pairs performance tuning and backend reliability with pragmatic front-end improvements. Based in England, he combines systematic documentation and version-control discipline with a penchant for replacing legacy components—reflecting a preference for incremental, low-risk modernization.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Wales, BangorThe Mosslands School
French, English
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Github Skills (122)
datetime10
terraform10
infrastructure10
magic-numbers10
php-api10
angularjs-material10
laravel10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
detector10
lts10
checker10
angularjs10
materialize10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SykesCottages/bitbucket-pipes
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Images for bitbucket pipes
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pipesbitbucket
SykesCottages/pdfutils
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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