Christopher Akroyd
Founding Engineer at plinth
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Akroyd is a founding engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building web and data-driven products from early-stage startups to enterprise teams. Based in London, he blends full-stack JavaScript expertise (React, Node, GraphQL, TypeScript) with data-science and network-science training from UCL, having shipped AR, mobile hybrid, and analytics-driven SaaS features at Cisco and in his own ventures. He has a track record of turning research and academic teaching into practical products—bootstrapping a QR-based ordering SaaS and tutoring university students while freelancing on ML and large-scale app contracts. Equally comfortable leading small teams or shipping solo, he gravitates toward hard technical problems and pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with a Year in Industry, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with a Year in Industry at University of KentUniversity College London
English, German
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Github Skills (25)
mersenne-twister10
prng10
robots-txt10
random-generation9
parser9
javascript8
caching8
txt8
theano8
nodejs7
region7
regex6
object-detection5
image-segmentation5
convolutional-neural-networks5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisakroyd/robots-txt-parser
Mar 2021 - May 2022
A lightweight robots.txt parser for Node.js with support for wildcards, caching and promises.
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 1 month
txtrobots-txtnode-jsjavascriptcaching
chrisakroyd/random-seedable
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Fully-fledged random number generator library with high quality implementations of Xorshift, Xorwow, Mersenne Twister, PCG and LCG. Each implements a standard API producing number distributions that exactly match the original implementations.
Contributions:109 commits, 35 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
mersenne-twisterprngrandom-generationrandom-number-generatorsxorshift
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