Richard Towers
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Towers is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years building and scaling public-sector web platforms, most recently steering engineering for GOV.UK across roles from senior developer to Head of Software Engineering. Based in London, he blends deep hands-on experience in reliability engineering, PaaS, identity (GOV.UK Verify) and payments with people leadership and long-term stewardship of critical government services. His decade-plus tenure at the Government Digital Service reflects strong institutional knowledge and an ability to evolve systems and teams through shifting policy and operational constraints. Trained as an MEng in Mechanical Engineering, he brings an analytical, systems-thinking approach to software design and incident resilience. Outside formal titles he combines pragmatic coding with mentorship, often switching between individual contributor work and strategic engineering leadership.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Mechanical Engineering, MEng, Mechanical Engineering at Durham University
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Github Skills (200)
reliability-engineering10
puppet10
trigger10
rehype10
html10
middleman10
single-sign-on10
forum10
portal10
frontend10
origami10
cloud-foundry10
hotel-booking10
verify10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-graphql
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Contributions:88 PRs, 63 pushes, 90 branches in 4 months
govuk
richardTowers/paas-loki-exporter
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Ships logs from the cloud foundry firehose to loki
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
foundrycloud-foundryshipslokifirehose
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