Richard Innocent
Lead Software Engineer at Aviva
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Innocent is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and guiding full-stack teams across cloud-native, Java, and modern JavaScript stacks. He has led T-shaped teams at companies like Adaptavist and Aviva, shipping products for high-availability platforms (ScriptRunner for Jira Data Center) and introducing Typescript-based serverless patterns and in-app notifications. Comfortable diving deep into system internals or steering product direction with PMs and UX, he pairs hands-on coding (React, Groovy, Java, Go, Next.js) with continuous improvement of processes and tooling. He has line-managed and grown engineering teams, built internal forecasting tools in his own time, and driven migrations to microservices and Kubernetes while maintaining rigorous QA and TDD practices. Based in Basingstoke, he combines mechanical engineering training and leadership experience (running a 600‑member student society) with a practical knack for translating complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree Mechanical Engineering, Master’s degree Mechanical Engineering at University of NottinghamA levels, A levels at Sandbach School Sixth Form College
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Github Skills (61)
aws8
properties-file7
semantic-versioning7
maven6
oracle6
spelling6
maven-plugin6
docker6
typescript6
datetimeformatter6
java6
language-detection6
google-cloud-platform6
container6
versioning5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RichardInnocent/semantic-versioning-maven
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Semantic versioning for Maven projects
Contributions:55 releases, 1 review, 51 commits in 1 month
maven-pluginmavensemantic-versioningversioningjava
RichardInnocent/polysight-auth
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Authentication/authorisation microservice framework for Polysight
Contributions:52 PRs, 78 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
authorizationauthenticationmicroservice-frameworkmicroservicesjwt
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