Richard Lowden
Developer Technical Architect at Quicksilva
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Lowden is a Developer Technical Architect with 14 years of hands-on experience building .NET applications, from legacy .NET 1.1 to modern ASP.NET MVC and Web API solutions. He specialises in healthcare-facing systems, designing scalable distributed architectures using Windows Services, MSMQ and RabbitMQ, and integrating Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle backends. A pragmatic advocate for testability and agile practices, he has introduced dependency injection and TDD into teams while working across Scrum and Kanban environments. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he routinely leads business analysis, technical design, delivery and ongoing support for client projects. Known for clear client communication and rapid learning, he combines deep Microsoft-stack expertise with a knack for process improvements that save time and reduce risk. Based in Swindon, he blends long-term continuity at Quicksilva with prior enterprise support experience at Accenture, giving him perspective on both delivery and operational stability.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mangotsfield Secondary SchoolBA, Business Information Systems, BA, Business Information Systems at University of the West of England
Github Skills (49)
nuget10
messaging10
documentdb10
nunit10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
event-sourcing10
message-queue10
rabbitmq10
asp-net10
msmq10
minimize10
masstransit10
csharp10
moq10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lowds/AutoFixture
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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lowds/MahApps.Metro
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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