Richard Tasker
Development Team Lead at Elaway
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Tasker is a development team lead and seasoned .NET web developer based in Leeds with over a decade of hands-on experience designing APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native services. He blends practical architecture and principal-developer work with people leadership—running teams, Scrum processes and a consultancy business while delivering integrations, event-sourced systems and Kubernetes deployments. His career spans fintech, travel and enterprise domains where he’s built gateway/proxy services, data collectors, and CI/CD pipelines that run on GKE and Azure. Notably he has driven migrations from proprietary messaging to RabbitMQ/MassTransit, introduced structured logging and health metrics at scale, and led eventstorming and DDD practices on greenfield projects. Pragmatic and entrepreneurial, he pairs an engineer’s attention to operational detail with experience launching and consulting through his own company.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, Engineering, Merit with 2 Distinctions, BTEC, Engineering, Merit with 2 Distinctions at Southport CollegeBsc(Hons), Cybernetics, Robotics & Virtual Systems, 2:2, Bsc(Hons), Cybernetics, Robotics & Virtual Systems, 2:2 at University of Bradford
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Github Skills (86)
middleware10
thin10
siren10
nancy10
extension-methods10
carter10
cqrs9
dotnet9
vagrant9
packer9
nuget9
terraform9
asp-net-core9
structured-logging9
single-source9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ritasker/richardtasker.co.uk
Feb 2019 - May 2023
content for my blog
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 3 months
my-blogcreative-commonspython
ritasker/Carter.SirenNegotiator
Apr 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 4 months
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