Joe Rickerby
Co-founder, Developer at Nord Projects
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Rickerby is a London-based co-founder and developer with 14 years of hands-on experience building products and teams across startups and consultancy. He co-founded Nord Projects and Mixim, combining full-stack engineering with product instincts to ship client-facing apps and embedded media systems—from iOS apps and hotel IPTV to backend services. An active open-source maintainer (notably on PyPI projects) and contributor to pyinstrument, he brings performance-first thinking to profiling and backend optimization. Trained as an M.Eng. in Control and Instrumentation at Cambridge, he blends rigorous engineering foundations with practical systems work and a knack for extracting accurate performance metrics that improve real-world applications.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
4As at A-level, 4As at A-level at Fettes CollegeMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Control and Instrumentation, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Control and Instrumentation at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (29)
debugging10
objective-c10
javascript10
event-handling10
python10
vuejs210
performance-optimization10
vue10
profiling10
testing9
postgresql9
bit-manipulation9
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
joerick/pyinstrument
Mar 2014 - Dec 2022
🚴 Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is slow!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 66 reviews, 642 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the `pyinstrument` library, a Python call stack profiler. Their contributions included improvements to core profiling logic by extracting information directly from frame objects. Moreover, the user implemented enhancements such as the subtraction of time spent in profiler calls from time measurements to enhance accuracy. They also addressed code style and formatting issues while bumping the project version.
pythondjangoperformanceasync
tingbot/ocean
Nov 2015 - Nov 2018
🌊 The place to browse or publish your Tingbot apps
Contributions:73 commits, 37 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years
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