Richard Aikins
Software Engineer at Free PAD Alliance
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
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Top SchoolRichard Aikins is a full-stack and mobile software engineer based in Accra with 6+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native applications and Flutter mobile apps. He combines backend skills in Java and Laravel with Dart/Flutter front-end expertise, and practical experience deploying to AWS, Azure, and GCP. Richard has held technical leadership roles—from CTO to Head of IT—while shipping consumer-facing products like a real estate booking app and NGO tools, showing both product and execution focus. He contributes to notable open-source projects including tensorflow/decision-forests and web-platform-tests, where he improved build infra and hardened test suites, reflecting attention to reliability and developer workflows. Comfortable across development, QA, and DevOps, he brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-aware approach to delivering scalable, well-tested software.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dip. Ed, Science, Dip. Ed, Science at Foso College of EducationBachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at University of EducationWASSCE, Science, WASSCE, Science at Winneba Senior High School
twi, fante, English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
python10
testing10
machine-learning10
cicd10
tensorflow10
bazel10
build-automation10
test-automation10
dockers9
gradient-boosting9
test-runner9
docker9
web-standards9
decision-tree6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/decision-forests
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A collection of state-of-the-art algorithms for the training, serving and interpretation of Decision Forest models in Keras.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 10 reviews, 63 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily worked on internal changes within the repository. Their contributions involve modifying build configurations, test scripts, and dependencies, along with internal code adjustments. Several commits focused on updating and patching build tools, including `test_bazel.sh` and related configuration files. They also made changes to documentation tutorials and core libraries indicating a deep understanding of the project's infrastructure.
pythondecision-foreststate-of-the-arttrainingtensorflow
web-platform-tests/wpt
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the test suites for the Web Platform Tests (WPT) repository. Their work involved writing and modifying tests related to the NativeIO API, including tests for functionality like rename, flush, and capacity allocation. They also focused on ensuring that these tests handled error conditions and boundary cases correctly, demonstrating a focus on thorough testing and edge-case coverage. The user also added longer timeouts to tests and addressed flakiness.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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