Richard Thurgood
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Visualization Developer
Over the past eight years, Richard has built software used by millions of people for companies such as OVO Energy, Genomics England (NHS), Aviva, Accenture, the Premier League, and Premier Inn. He is a passionate and pragmatic full-stack developer with a keen interest in React, data visualization, and Golang.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a UK map of real-time charging states of thousands of electric vehicles. It was featured on BBC's Click program.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Kaluza (Part of OVO Energy)
- Championed the user when building new products with strong attention to usability and user value. The company recognized this by awarding me the employee of the year award in 2020.
- Built a control room interface for investment pitches, allowing the presenter to show thousands of charging assets on a UK map. The interactive interface has been demoed to investors, including Goldman Sachs as well as media outlets such as the BBC.
- Created a custom chart library for Kaluza using D3.js. Making charts reusable saved the company two days per new chart in dev time.
Senior Front-end Developer
Zone
- Delivered a medical application for Genomics England (part of the NHS). The application was responsive over mobile, tablet, and desktop, and we met several tight deadlines.
- Led the design and refinement of the complex product and mentored junior developers.
- Reduced the number of bugs in backlog over time by proactively improving standards of ways of working and promoting a definition of done that included thorough testing.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Aviva
- Delivered several content-managed websites for the UK and international markets which met high accessibility standards.
- Introduced charting technology to the team and built interactive charts of financial data.
- Managed junior developers and led study sessions to improve the standard of code in the organization.
- Established behavior-driven development test suite and enforced standards through code reviews.
Experience
Aviva International Site Build
https://www.aviva.com/investors/Skills
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, TypeScript, CSS3, Python, Go
Libraries/APIs
React, D3.js, Node.js, Highcharts, Modernizr
Paradigms
Agile
Platforms
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apache Kafka
Other
Data Visualization, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Styled-components
Frameworks
Redux, Ext JS
Tools
Slack, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Gulp
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics
University of Surrey - Guildford, UK
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