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Richard Brown

Technical Director

Richard Brown is Technology Director at Audacia, bringing over 15 years of software engineering and enterprise delivery experience.

Richard is responsible for setting the technical direction across Audacia's projects, maintaining engineering and testing standards, and ensuring that architectural decisions align with best practice and long-term maintainability.

He works closely with delivery teams and senior client stakeholders across complex technology programmes, supporting operating model change and helping organisations align their technical landscape with their broader business goals.

Richard has played a central role in embedding AI within Audacia's engineering practices, leading tooling evaluation, process redesign, capability building and governance to help teams adopt AI safely, effectively and at pace. That work draws directly on lessons from real-world delivery across both engineering-led and AI-driven programmes.

Latest insights from Richard Brown

A Testing Strategy for Legacy Modernisation

Richard Brown - 08/07/2026

Legacy systems often don't come with a specification, with their behaviour living in code nobody documented and workarounds nobody wrote down. This piece looks at why conventional testing breaks down in modernisation projects, how characterisation testing captures undocumented behaviour before it's changed, and how to measure whether your testing strategy is actually working.

From Proof of Concept to Production: What AI Projects Actually Require

Richard Brown - 06/07/2026

The gap between a proof of concept and a production system is where a significant proportion of AI initiatives fail to progress. Understanding what that transition involves, and planning for it from the outset, is one of the more important things a technology leader can do before committing investment. This blog draws on Episode 1 of Audacia's podcast Technically Speaking and covers the lessons our guests have taken from productionising AI.

Engineer Experience: Why and How you Should Measure It

Richard Brown - 13/05/2026

Discover why measuring Engineer Experience matters and how to do it effectively – exploring how people, processes and tools shape productivity across software engineering teams.

Building What Matters – Reducing the 80% Feature Waste in Product Delivery

Richard Brown - 29/04/2026

Half of everything software teams build is wasted. This is a consistent finding across multiple studies and decades of data, and it should be the starting point for any conversation about digital product delivery. This article looks at why technology projects consistently lose focus on user outcomes, what the evidence says about the impact of user-centred delivery, and how engineering leaders can build the discipline of tying every feature to genuine user value.