Richard Weeks
Senior Software Engineer at BAE Systems
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRichard Weeks is a Senior Software Engineer and technical architect with 11 years of commercial experience building cloud-native, microservice and embedded systems using Java, C#, C++ and Linux. He has led development for high-responsibility projects across defence, government and publishing sectors—most recently at BAE Systems and as a technical lead on imposter detection equipment for the UK Home Office. His background spans end-to-end delivery: design, DevOps and live production support on platforms including GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL. Comfortable across backend services and systems programming, he has repeatedly operated in regulated and mission-critical environments where reliability and auditability matter. Based in Chichester, he combines an MSc in Software Systems Technology with deep practical experience translating complex domain requirements into maintainable architectures. Notably he moves between consultancy and senior engineering roles, bringing both client-facing discipline and hands-on implementation skills.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering, BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering at The University of ManchesterMSc Software Systems Technology, MSc Software Systems Technology at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (51)
cop9
correspondence8
spring-boot8
java8
service-collection6
data-journalism6
security6
census6
user-interface6
messaging6
exports5
microservices5
xml5
survey5
psql5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UKHomeOffice/hocs-cms-data-migrator
May 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:93 reviews, 140 PRs, 329 pushes in 1 year 1 month
controlcode/python
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.