Richard Pope
Director Of Software & Platform
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Pope is a seasoned software leader and contractor with over a decade of experience designing and delivering Microsoft-centric architectures, particularly across .NET and Azure environments. As Director of Software & Platform at DeGould and long-term founder of Simbiosys Ltd, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having operated up to Development Manager level. His background spans re-architecting monoliths into microservices, containerised CI/CD pipelines, and serverless integrations for clients including Just Eat, Thames Water and Awaze. Richard is comfortable across cloud providers and hosting patterns—Azure Kubernetes, AWS Lambda/EC2 and DynamoDB—and has a track record of identifying platform-level issues (including engaging with vendors such as AWS on SDK problems) to unblock delivery. He frequently embeds with product teams to turn experiments and algorithms into production-grade services that improve customer experience and operational resilience. Based in Swindon and active as a consultant, he combines pragmatic delivery focus with deep system design and a knack for smoothing handovers to permanent teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Wootton Bassett ComprehensiveBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Warwick
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
azure-pipelines10
snap10
kotlin10
signal10
azure-devops9
azure9
messenger9
windows9
k8s9
specflow9
cicd9
java9
microk8s9
android9
gherkin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
VaticanUK/SmartThings
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
VaticanUK/com-pact
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
An alternative Pact implementation for .NET
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
dotnetpactc-sharpcsharpdotnet-core
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