Richard Thombs
Principal Software Engineer at ENSEK
Melton, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorRichard Thombs is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience, currently leading Pay-As-You-Go product development and the Meter to Cash tribe at ENSEK while founding the company’s Developer Experience guild. He specialises in Angular frontends and .NET backends and has founded and built products like teamhaven.com and retailarmy.com, blending hands-on engineering with product instincts. Known for clear, decisive planning that welcomes constructive challenge, he drives architectural clarity and pragmatic delivery across complex billing and metering domains. Based in Melton, England, he pairs technical leadership with a founder’s mindset, frequently bridging developer experience, product strategy, and scalable implementation. An implicit strength is his ability to translate operational pain points into developer-facing tooling and workflows that speed delivery and reduce cognitive load.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
4,800reputation
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datatables
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jquery-validate
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twitter-bootstrap
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Github Skills (186)
windows10
web-performance10
google-map10
google-maps10
backend10
javascript10
dotnet10
browser10
editor10
api10
angular10
electron10
console10
typescript10
editorconfig10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
richardthombs/agilesnowball.com
Feb 2015 - Oct 2022
Home page
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 9 months
home-page
richardthombs/scunpacked
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Star Citizen data browser and API
Contributions:4 reviews, 371 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years
apistar-citizenbrowser
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