Richard Saunders
SVP Senior Full Stack Engineer at Citi
Billericay, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Saunders is an experienced full-stack engineer and engineering leader with 11 years delivering web and cloud applications across finance, media and government sectors, currently SVP Senior Full Stack Engineer at Citi and founder of Saunders Developer Solutions. He combines hands-on expertise in Node, PHP, React/Angular, RESTful APIs, MySQL/Postgres/Mongo, message queues and search platforms with practical architecture and DevOps-minded delivery. Comfortable throughout the SDLC, he has repeatedly led migrations and platform modernizations—most notably BBC account transitions and enterprise projects at HSBC and Citi—while mentoring teams in Agile and modern engineering practices. His background spans both permanent and international contract roles, giving him a pragmatic, client-focused approach to solving complex problems. Colleagues describe him as an open, inclusive communicator who translates technical complexity for non‑technical stakeholders and prioritizes the right solution over flashy tech.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Essex
Github Skills (22)
xhprof9
profiler7
mongodb7
pdo7
php6
react-router5
profiling5
razzle5
server-side-rendering4
domain-model4
react4
database4
guzzle3
zend-framework3
behat3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rs-saunders/promise-debounce-pool
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
rs-saunders/react-es2015
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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