Connor Kirkpatrick
Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman UK
Stevington, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolConnor Kirkpatrick is a software engineer with a decade of experience who combines formal computer science training from Royal Holloway with practical systems work at Northrop Grumman UK, progressing from a graduate role to a current engineer position. He brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to tooling and data workflows—evidenced by contributions to the popular ropensci/skimr R package where he improved summary/print methods and added unit tests to make data summaries more reliable and pipeable. Based in Stevington, England, Connor pairs a detail-oriented engineering style with a user-focused mindset honed during five years in recreation services, which helped develop his collaborative and operational instincts. Known for code that’s “slightly wonky” in a human, readable way, he values clear interfaces and maintainable implementations that ease data exploration for others.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of LondonGordon's School
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ropensci/skimr
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
A frictionless, pipeable approach to dealing with summary statistics
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Connor focused on enhancing the `skimr` R package, which is designed for generating summary statistics. Their primary contribution involved developing and refining methods related to the `summary` and `print` functions for the `skim_df` object, adding functionality for concise data summaries. This included splitting functionality into print and summary methods, adding parameter documentation, and updating signatures to conform to generic functions. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to validate the correctness of the summary object and its print representation.
r-packagestatisticsunconf17data-scienceapproach
ConnorKirk/aws-lambda-powertools-typescript
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda Functions that makes structured logging, creating custom metrics asynchronously and tracing with AWS X-Ray easier
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
x-rayraycustom-metricslambda-functionsstructured
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