Richard Turner
Chair Of The Board Of Trustees at Llangarron Community Association
Ross-on-Wye, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Turner is a seasoned technology leader with 44 years of experience delivering high-impact products across devices, government, finance, and identity, currently serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees in Llangarron. A former Principal PM Lead at Microsoft, he drove the Windows ARM developer program and modern Windows dev platform, and previously led Windows Terminal and WSL efforts, blending deep technical chops with product and program leadership. He has founded and led companies (including Octarine Industries and Paradigm Industries) and held engineering and PM roles at Microsoft and HBO, demonstrating a rare mix of hands-on engineering, startup grit, and corporate delivery. Known for translating complex platform-level challenges into developer-friendly solutions, he combines strategic vision with clear communication and stakeholder management. Based in Ross-on-Wye, he brings a cross-Atlantic perspective from long tenure in Redmond and the Seattle tech scene back to community-focused leadership in the UK.
44 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science & Microelectronics, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science & Microelectronics at Oxford Brookes University
Stackoverflow
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silverlight
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ubuntu
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bash
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windows-subsystem-for-linux
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
KanDisheng/Microsoft-Windows-Terminal
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host - all in the same place!
Contributions:31 commits in 16 days
placesource-portwindows-desktopmdtwindows-console
microsoft/MS-DOS
Mar 1982 - Nov 2018
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes
Contributions:42 commits, 82 PRs, 30 pushes in 37 years 2 months
dosboxdosretrocomputingms-doscommodore
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