Richy Jassal
Custom Software Engineering Specialist at Accenture
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichy Jassal is a Custom Software Engineering Specialist and technical team lead with nine years focused on full-stack development and a broader 25+ year technology career spanning airlines, healthcare, and government. He excels in JavaScript/Node.js and Scala across front- and back-end systems, delivering mission-critical services for organisations like DWP Digital, HMRC, and Accenture within Agile/TDD environments. Known for integrating and decommissioning legacy payment services, he combines pragmatic engineering with architecture-aware delivery to meet strategic application reference architectures. Richy pairs hands-on coding and peer review with stakeholder-facing show-and-tell presentations, translating complex requirements into production-ready services. His background at British Airways—ranging from CTI systems development to business analysis and even qualifying as long-haul cabin crew—gives him rare cross-functional empathy for operational constraints. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings steady delivery, systems thinking, and a track record of reliable, auditable solutions in large public- and private-sector programmes.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Eastcliffe Grammar SchoolBSc(Hons) Computer Science with Applicable Mathematics, BSc(Hons) Computer Science with Applicable Mathematics at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (6)
jenkins9
deprecated2
requirejs2
javascript2
sass2
security1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/construction-industry-scheme
Aug 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:36 reviews, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
hmrc/cis-contractor-frontend
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:121 reviews, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months
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