Richard Kavanagh
Platform Engineer Senior Consultant
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Kavanagh is a senior platform engineer with 12 years of cloud, research and startup experience, currently building resilient platforms at CGI. He blends academic rigor from a PhD in Grid computing with hands-on delivery—designing CI/CD pipelines, automating AWS deployments, and leading QA and security accreditation efforts such as Cyber Essentials Plus. His career includes influential EU research on energy-efficient cloud software (ASCETiC, TANGO) and practical work porting scientific applications to the cloud to drastically reduce user friction. At Slingshot he combined architecture, automation and data engineering to ship production-ready simulation platforms and consult on data centre energy efficiency. Comfortable moving between code, research and governance, he brings a track record of turning complex distributed-systems research into operational, auditable platforms. Based in Leeds, he often bridges academia and industry to deliver pragmatic, energy-conscious cloud solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Software Engineering, Distinction, MEng, Software Engineering, Distinction at The University of HuddersfieldUniversity of Leeds Teaching and Research Award (ULTRA), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, University of Leeds Teaching and Research Award (ULTRA), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at University of Leeds
Github Skills (35)
nvidia-smi10
transport9
energy-efficiency9
simulation9
energy9
zabbix9
traffic9
nvidia9
eclipse8
multiple-gpu8
graphic8
gpu7
pypi7
traffic-simulation7
temperature6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RichardKav/io-utils
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
RichardKav/zabbix-data-collector
Aug 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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