Richard Tiffin
Principal Software Engineer at OVO
Llwyngwril, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Tiffin is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building resilient, scalable solutions across B2B and B2C domains, currently shaping engineering strategy at OVO. He excels at forming and growing high-performing remote and hybrid teams, having stood up 4 teams of 21 engineers and embedded pragmatic engineering practices that balance immediate product needs with long-term technical vision. His background spans green energy, transport infrastructure and national-scale modelling projects, giving him a rare blend of domain fluency and hands-on delivery. Known for recruiting and mentoring across timezones, he proactively removes cross-team blockers by forging product and technical partnerships. Based in Llwyngwril, Wales, he brings both deep technical leadership and a genuine commitment to sustainable technology outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, BSc Computing at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (25)
java7
self-contained7
business-logic5
csv5
data-persistence5
reactive5
dev-environment5
kubernetes4
r4
bash4
linux4
rest4
amazon-connect4
cloud-native4
kotlin-dsl3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UKGovernmentBEIS/national-household-model-stock-files-creator
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
Akoolla/event-booking-applications
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
Service to provide business logic and data persistence via REST interfaces
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
business-logicdata-persistencerest
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