Jo Raksit
Principal Software Developer at NewsNow.co.uk
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJo Raksit is a Principal Software Developer with 13 years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems and leading architecture and delivery across startups and enterprises. He has driven petabyte-scale migrations to Spark and Snowflake, deployed Dockerised microservices on Openshift/GKE, and implemented predictive models and LLM services for news ranking and financial analytics. Comfortable across stacks—from Spring Boot, Flask and Node.js backends to React/Next.js frontends and GraphQL—he blends deep systems engineering with practical ML and NLP expertise. As a former CTO he architected high-throughput, multi-region platforms and graph-based recommendation engines, proving fluency in both product and infrastructure trade-offs. His MA in Psychoanalytical Studies gives him an uncommon edge in team dynamics, stakeholder communication and user-centric design. Based in London, he enjoys turning complex regulatory and data-security constraints into robust, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Hons BA Drawing, Drawing, 3D Modelling, Data Visualisation, 1st Class Hons BA Drawing, Drawing, 3D Modelling, Data Visualisation at University of the ArtsMaster of Arts - MA, Psychoanalytical Studies, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Psychoanalytical Studies, Distinction at Birkbeck, University of London
English, Bengali
Github Skills (3)
react8
react-navigation7
react-native7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
joyita/IsMoneyTheRootOfAllEvil
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 19 days
joyita/fable
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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