Richard Tomlinson
Director at Aviva
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Tomlinson is a Director and Certified Scrum Master with over a decade of experience transforming delivery teams across retail, insurance, and public sector programmes. He specialises in building self-organising, cross-functional teams and implementing scalable Agile/SAFe practices—moving organisations from Waterfall to Scrum and Kanban while improving delivery predictability. Richard blends hands-on technical understanding (from early software architect and developer roles) with commercial leadership, having founded and run product and e-commerce ventures that informed his inventory, BI and marketing systems work. Known for coaching Product Owners and Scrum Masters, he thrives in complex, distributed environments and has delivered high-profile digital products for brands like ASOS, Next and RAC. A pragmatic servant leader, he often pairs strategic roadmap design with practical delivery tooling such as Azure DevOps to drive measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering Degree, BSc (Hons) Software Engineering Degree at Birmingham City University
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Github Skills (16)
linux-distro10
docker-container9
unit-testing8
webmethods8
mocking8
mock-server7
testing7
designer7
esb6
puppet6
esp82665
firmware5
automation3
elasticsearch3
ruby3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wmaop/wm-aop
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 125 commits, 79 pushes in 2 years 8 months
integration-servermock-servertestingwebmethodsmocking
wmaop/wm-jbehave
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Unit Testing for webMethods Flow services with a Behavioural Driven style
Contributions:4 releases, 97 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
unit-testingwebmethods
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