Richard Walton
Principal Architect at MailOnline
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Walton is a Principal Architect with 15 years of experience building scalable, testable systems and leading engineering teams at high-traffic organisations such as MailOnline. He blends hands-on craftsmanship—writing clean, pattern-driven code and contributing bug fixes and tests to open-source projects like tmuxinator—with broad architectural leadership across backend, games platforms and NodeJS server ecosystems. Previously he led development of a cross-platform Haxe games platform and sold a programming teaching tool to a university, demonstrating both product and technical entrepreneurship. Known for strong client communication and global training delivery, he established code review and continuous improvement practices for distributed teams of 20+. Based in Wakefield, UK, he combines deep curiosity (he once implemented his own programming language) with practical delivery at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Computing Science, BSc Hons Computing Science at The University of Huddersfield
Italian
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
ruby10
automated-tests10
tmux10
java9
actionscript9
apache-flex9
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
swing6
flash6
android6
enums6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tmuxinator/tmuxinator
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Manage complex tmux sessions easily
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the reliability and correctness of the `tmuxinator` project. They addressed a bug related to session matching, ensuring exact name matching. They also introduced dead-code elimination within template rendering and fixed code style issues. Furthermore, the user added tests to verify the correct behavior of the `tmux_has_session?` method, enhancing overall code quality.
tmux
RichTeaLang/RichTea
Nov 2010 - Feb 2019
Contributions:192 commits, 79 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 4 months
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