Rob Kirkbride
Chief Software Architect at Hitachi Rail
Wilmslow, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Kirkbride is a Chartered Engineer and Chief Software Architect with 14 years of senior experience and a long career in transport engineering, currently leading architecture at Hitachi Rail. He has repeatedly taken legacy systems through full cloud migrations to AWS using infrastructure-as-code, combining hands-on coding with end-to-end responsibility for design, security, costing and delivery. At Thales he led cross-disciplinary teams, introduced real-time observability via managed Elasticsearch/Kibana, and delivered complex projects ahead of schedule and under budget. Comfortable shifting between solution architect, product owner and technical lead roles, he focuses on pragmatic, auditable architectures for safety-critical transport systems. Based in Wilmslow, England, he brings deep domain knowledge from decades in rail and embedded control software paired with modern cloud-native practices.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) Computer Science at Coventry University
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Github contributions (5)
ntisservices/ntis-dotnet-web-services-Release2.5
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:2 commits in 2 months
ntisservices/ntis-java-web-services-Release2.5
May 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
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