Richard Brooksby
Director at Ravenbrook Limited
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Brooksby is a seasoned software engineering leader and co-founder with over 30 years of experience helping organizations turn complex technical and organizational problems into reliable, deliverable products. As Director and Senior Consultant at Ravenbrook he blends hands-on systems programming (garbage collection, memory management, compilers, embedded and highly reliable systems) with strategic product and process work for clients like Symbian, Lastminute.com and Perforce. He is comfortable at all levels of an organization—translating business needs into architecture, delivery plans, and engineering practices—and has repeatedly improved delivery through evolutionary planning and CMM-based process change. Richard’s background includes building production-quality runtime systems with exceptionally low defect rates and unifying divergent codebases to restore productivity. He also has experience running a small game studio and advising startups and boards, demonstrating an unusual mix of deep technical craft and practical commercial leadership. Based in Cambridge, he pairs an academic foundation from the University of Cambridge with a pragmatic, communication-first approach to engineering management.
31 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at University of Cambridge
English
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Github Skills (189)
end-to-end-encryption10
restructuredtext10
pgp10
peer-to-peer10
dylan10
ruby10
chat10
p2p10
markdown10
memory-management10
sphinx10
keybase10
lxc10
documentation-generator10
go10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rptb1/p4python
May 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
rptb1/dnd-srd-sphinx
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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