Oliver Rickard
Software Engineer at Meta
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Rickard is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience and a 6-year run leading and scaling some of Meta's largest businesses. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he blends deep mobile/iOS expertise—demonstrated through contributions to ComponentKit and a refined PopoverView control—with product-focused leadership from his time as engineering lead at Sherpa, an A16z- and GV-backed startup. He excels at hardening UI frameworks, improving accessibility and layout reliability, and resolving tricky rendering and touch-handling edge cases. Known for shipping robust, test-backed fixes in widely used open-source iOS projects, he pairs Berkeley-engineering rigor with pragmatic engineering judgment across large-scale consumer products.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering, Master's degree, Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (14)
objective-c10
uiimageview10
component-kit10
ios10
coregraphics10
ui-components10
ui-design9
textkit9
accessibility9
ux-design9
unit-testing8
github-repos7
github7
git-repository7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/componentkit
Mar 2015 - May 2018
A React-inspired view framework for iOS.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:146 commits, 155 PRs, 81 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the `ComponentKit` framework, focusing on improving the functionality and stability of text rendering and UI components for iOS. Their work involved fixing build issues, addressing truncation behavior in labels, and enabling accessibility features. Furthermore, they resolved layout logic problems and added tests, improving the robustness of the UI framework.
react-nativereactios
runway20/PopoverView
Sep 2012 - Apr 2013
A simple UIView popover control for iPhone/iPad written in CoreGraphics.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:21 commits, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on enhancing the UI and functionality of a popover control for iOS. They addressed various issues, including fixing subview positioning, correcting color schemes, and improving touch handling. Key contributions include adding support for displaying UIImages alongside string captions and modifying the code to integrate the PopoverView directly into the UIWindow, resolving potential z-positioning issues. These changes demonstrate a focus on refining the visual presentation and user interaction within the application.
ipadios-librarycoregraphicsiphoneuiview
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