Richard Towers

As of 2026 I’m taking a break and pursuing my own projects. For the preceding decade I wrote software and managed people at the Government Digital Service , including a little over a year as the Head of Software Engineering for GOV.UK .

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TypeScripting the technical interview

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An homage to Aphyr's Typing the technical interview

Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL

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Some tricks and techniques for working with graph or tree like data in Postgresql