Rik Crompton
Lead .Net Developer at Howells
Harrogate, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Crompton is a seasoned Lead .NET Developer based in Harrogate with over two decades of commercial C# experience and a dozen years in senior software roles. He leads a small team building resilient .NET MVC and Blazor solutions for financial systems, applying SOLID principles, TDD and a strong focus on reusable, low-defect code. Comfortable across the full stack, Rik pairs server-side expertise (C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server) with modern front-end skills (TypeScript, JavaScript, SASS) and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, Octopus). His background includes building large multi-assembly development frameworks and developer tools at LexisNexis, so he brings deep systems thinking as well as hands-on delivery. Pragmatic and quality-driven, he blends legacy-system experience (C++, Synon/Obsydian) with current cloud and test automation practices to accelerate reliable releases.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Civil Engineering, MEng, Civil Engineering at University of LeedsBury Grammar School
Github Skills (146)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rikrak/DeveloperSpecificConfig
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Amends the Visual Studio build process allowing each developer to work with their own settings in the web.config or app.config files.
Contributions:3 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 8 months
rikrak/UnityResolutionBug
Mar 2018 - May 2021
A project that re-creates a bug after upgrading a project to Unity 5.7
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
unity3dunity
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