Richard Taylor
Software Development - Senior Consultant at Opencast Software
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Taylor is a senior software consultant with over a decade and a half of hands-on experience building .NET-based systems across public and private sectors, currently delivering platform solutions at Opencast Software. He blends strong backend expertise in C#, .NET MVC, Dynamics CRM and SQL with growing cloud skills in AWS and analytics-driven product decisions using Google marketing tools. Richard has driven platform work at tombola and contributed to the popular SolrNet .NET client—adding Autofac integration and GUID/UUID handling—demonstrating attention to library design and interoperability. A Teesside Computer Games Programming graduate, he pairs object-oriented foundations in C++ with pragmatic delivery habits cultivated in BI, SharePoint and CRM projects. Known for a friendly, collaborative style, he consistently translates complex requirements into maintainable solutions while enjoying the problem-solving challenge.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Games Programming, 2:2, BSc Hons, Computer Games Programming, 2:2 at Teesside University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
net10
dotnet10
solr10
asp-net10
autofac10
csharp10
dependency-injection10
mappings9
testing8
google-drive-api6
google-forms6
google-sheets6
google-slides6
forloop6
google-apps-script6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SolrNet/SolrNet
Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
Solr client for .Net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to enhancing the SolrNet client library for .NET. Their work involved integrating Autofac for dependency injection, modifying the module for correct instance resolution, and supporting .NET Framework version switching. They also implemented features to handle add parameters, including demonstrating UUID type schema mapping to Guid data types. These changes collectively improved the library's flexibility, functionality, and integration capabilities.
dotnetsolrsolrnetsolr-clientc-sharp
richtea/gulp-reinstall
Feb 2020 - Apr 2023
A Gulp plugin that runs install commands such as npm install, bower install
Contributions:9 releases, 25 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 2 months
bowergulpplugingulp-pluginrollupgulp
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