Harry Rickards
Staff Software Engineer at Compass
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Rickards is a Boston-based Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering full-stack, cloud-native applications. He has progressed from freelance prototyping and machine learning research to senior roles shaping production systems at Amida, American Well, and now Compass, often bridging data-heavy pipelines and user-facing web/mobile apps. His background includes building bespoke ETL tooling, HL7/FHIR healthcare integrations, and automating CI/CD into Kubernetes, reflecting strong devops and data engineering chops alongside application architecture. Harry is comfortable leading teams and coordinating with distributed contractors and clients, translating complex domain requirements into maintainable systems. Notably, his early work spans low-level embedded projects to NLP research (Named Entity Disambiguation), showing a rare mix of pragmatic engineering and experimental curiosity. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines deep technical breadth with a track record of shipping dependable, production-focused software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Computer Science (incomplete), 4.7/5.0, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Computer Science (incomplete), 4.7/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (60)
backend-api10
orange10
backend10
container9
docker9
api9
rest-api9
open-access9
querying8
android-app8
sudo7
earth7
latex6
gulp6
database5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amida-tech/orange-api
May 2015 - Jul 2018
API backend for Orange medication management app
Contributions:546 commits, 46 PRs, 227 pushes in 3 years 2 months
apiorangedockermedicationbackend
datagovuk-hackcode/social-impact-social-impact-investigator
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 5 months
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