Richard Mayes
Software Architect at Watchfinder
Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Mayes is a Software Architect with over 11 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise .NET systems, currently shaping architecture at Watchfinder. He brings deep expertise in C#, SQL Server, PowerShell and database design, evolved from hands-on roles building large-scale web and back-office systems across healthcare, recruitment and e-commerce domains. Prior to architecture leadership he was a senior developer on the UK’s leading out-of-hours and 111 call management platform, giving him strong domain experience in mission-critical, regulated software. His background includes end-to-end ownership of international-facing job search platforms, reflecting an ability to balance user-facing features with robust backend services. Based in Maidstone and educated in Electronic and Software Engineering at Leicester, he blends a practical engineering mindset with long-term platform thinking. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns legacy systems into maintainable, data-driven platforms.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Oakwood Park Grammar, MaidstoneBEng, Electronic and Software Engineering, BEng, Electronic and Software Engineering at University of Leicester
Spanish, English, French, German
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Github Skills (164)
python10
ansible10
vagrant10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
wix10
stylecop10
installer10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
editor9
dotnet9
virtualization9
vulnerabilities9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
caveman-dick/BoxStarter.Packages
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
caveman-dick/aws-cdk
Mar 2023 - Nov 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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