Rich Grundy
Technical Lead at Zen Educate
Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Grundy is a Technical Lead with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling e-commerce and education platforms, specialising in Ruby on Rails and relational databases. He combines over a decade of backend expertise with strong frontend skills in HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue) to deliver end-to-end solutions from planning through deployment. Having led engineering teams at Stinkyink and Zen Educate, he excels at translating product needs into pragmatic architecture and reliable releases in competitive industries. His toolkit spans PHP, Elixir/Phoenix, Node.js, Kubernetes and Docker, and he’s actively expanding into Rust and TypeScript. Based in Bromsgrove, UK, Rich is a practical communicator who prefers measurable user impact and keeps a curiosity-driven habit of learning newer languages and infrastructure patterns.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
Github Skills (69)
plugin10
onclick9
language-server-protocol9
language-server9
neovim8
vim7
lua7
nvim7
react-modal7
neovim-plugin6
adapter6
bamboo6
react6
javascript5
rack5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RichGuk/rich.grundy.io
Apr 2014 - Nov 2022
Personal blog
Contributions:268 commits, 24 PRs, 199 pushes in 8 years 8 months
RichGuk/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
Collection of my dotfiles
Contributions:1 PR, 180 pushes, 6 branches in 9 years 11 months
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