Richard Parkins
Technical Director at Talent Consulting
St. Ives, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Parkins is a seasoned technical leader with over two decades of engineering experience and nine years in senior roles, now serving as Technical Director at Talent Consulting where he leads cross-functional teams delivering government-hosted citizen sites. He combines deep hands-on expertise in cloud architectures (public, private, hybrid), distributed microservices, and event-driven systems with a strong track record of driving scalability, stability and near-zero downtime deployments. Richard has shaped architectural strategy and governance at CompareTheMarket—introducing contract testing, microservice governance and frequent deployments to handle extreme traffic spikes—and mentors technical leads to raise team capability. He thrives on in-person collaboration but has proven he can sustain high-performing, remote teams since the pandemic. Known for pragmatic evaluation of technologies (serverless vs EC2, Kafka vs RabbitMQ), he balances innovation with operational discipline and a people-first philosophy rooted in trust and respect. Based in St. Ives with a first-class degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, he also brings entrepreneurial experience from founding and running a bespoke software company.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
1st class, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 1st class, Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Loughborough UniversityA Level, Physics, Maths, Technology, A Level, Physics, Maths, Technology at Northgate sixth form
portugese, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
npm-cli10
javascript9
npm9
nodejs9
service-provider8
package-manager8
tar7
firebase7
mongodb7
pact7
interaction6
dotnet-test6
zip6
pact-net6
csharp5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rgparkins/elastic-search-setup
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
rgparkins/harecroftproperty
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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