Richard Poole
Chief Technology Officer at RiskSmart
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Poole is a delivery-focused CTO and architect based in Manchester with 11 years of senior technology leadership experience and two decades of hands-on engineering across finance, insurance, and consulting. Currently CTO at RiskSmart, he brings a practical blend of strategic direction and delivery discipline honed as a Principal Consultant at Accenture and an Application Architect at Pershing (BNY Mellon). He excels at turning complex legacy landscapes into maintainable, secure platforms—skills rooted in early systems and network administration roles and a BEng from The University of Manchester. Known as a community organiser, he pairs technical depth with stakeholder-facing delivery and governance experience, making him comfortable both in boardrooms and in code review. Quietly pragmatic, he often surfaces operational inefficiencies early and drives measurable improvements in release cadence and risk posture.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computing and Communication Systems Engineering (UMIST), BEng, Computing and Communication Systems Engineering (UMIST) at The University of ManchesterAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Github Skills (41)
terraform9
aws9
typescript8
snowflake8
custom-domain7
rest7
rest-api7
swagger-ui6
swagger6
terraform-provider6
authentication6
cli5
node-module5
open-source4
athena4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PershingTheHunters/TheHuntUI
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 2 months
poolieweb/ZakAndRach
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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