Richard Shephard
Senior Backend Engineer at Equal Experts South Africa
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Shephard is a Senior Backend Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable, production-grade backend systems for enterprise and consumer applications. He blends deep practical skills in C#, Node.js, Python, cloud platforms, CI/CD and test-driven development with a strong focus on software architecture and maintainability. Richard has led teams and shaped technical vision at companies like Entelect and SA Home Loans, mentoring developers and driving delivery through modern practices such as CQRS, event sourcing and containerized deployments. Now at Equal Experts he continues to pair early-architecture involvement with day-to-day engineering to ensure reliable outcomes for clients. An early embedded-systems background and contributions to the widely used NUnit testing framework hint at both low-level performance instincts and a commitment to improving testing infrastructure. Based in Durban, South Africa, he values collaboration, simplicity and continuous improvement in building software that lasts.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Degree in Electical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's of Science Degree in Electical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Cape TownWesterford High School
English, africaans
Github Skills (7)
nunit10
test-framework10
dotnet10
dotnet-new10
csharp10
testing10
tdd7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Apr 2017 - Jan 2021
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 46 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the NUnit framework by addressing and improving the testing capabilities. Their work included fixing test cases, refining test infrastructure, and implementing new tests. The user's work specifically revolved around the `ExploreTests` function and related features like test filtering and reporting on ignored test cases, demonstrating a focus on the test framework's internal workings.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
Poimen/taskboard-web
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Demo of a Tasking Board
Contributions:1 PR, 117 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
taskingboard
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