Richard Watkins
Engineering Team Lead at SPG
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Watkins is an engineering team lead and seasoned software professional with a decade of experience building cloud-native applications using AWS, TypeScript, Node, Ruby on Rails, Postgres and React. He currently leads engineering at Equals Money while holding senior/lead roles at SPG, blending hands-on development with Scrum Master discipline to deliver resilient financial and e-commerce systems. Comfortable with infrastructure as code via Terraform and Serverless Framework, he brings practical production experience deploying and operating services at scale. A former science teacher with a PGCE and background in biology, he applies a methodical, data-driven approach to team coaching and technical decision-making. Richard is learning Go and actively bridges backend engineering and delivery leadership, often focusing on developer productivity and reliable CI/CD flows. Based in Leeds, he pairs strong mentoring instincts with a track record of turning legacy stacks into maintainable, cloud-first platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MITx, Biology, General, MITx, Biology, General at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Biology, General at Newcastle UniversityMakers Academy
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Github Skills (67)
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
development-kit10
aws10
rebuild9
terraform9
rake9
infrastructure9
shift9
explore9
cloud-development-kit9
infrastructure-as-code9
aws-cloud9
twitter8
twilio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RichardWatkins1/hg1-club
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:102 PRs, 88 pushes, 92 branches in 3 years 1 month
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