Richard Groves
Cheif Executive & Founder at Absolute Survey
Epsom and Ewell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Groves is a seasoned geospatial engineer and founder with over 20 years’ hands-on experience delivering precise surveying and measured-building services, and 12 years leading Absolute Survey as Chief Executive. He combines deep technical mastery of 3D laser scanning, robotic surveying and AutoCAD with practical expertise across underground utility tracing, rights-of-light, party wall and boundary dispute surveys. A proven project leader, he has managed multidisciplinary teams on complex, high-profile projects from site capture through visualization and delivery. Unusually for a surveyor, he also has contributed to the open-source iOS cocos2d-objc project—fixing platform-specific UI and memory issues—illustrating a pragmatic coding mindset and attention to detail. Based in Epsom and Ewell, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a commitment to precision and technological innovation in the built environment.
12 years of coding experience
HNC, Surveying and Land Information, HNC, Surveying and Land Information at Lambeth College
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Github Skills (18)
objective-c10
debug10
ios10
coco10
crash-reports10
macos10
cocos2d-x10
debugging9
ui-design9
iphone9
front-end-development9
xcode9
uid9
web-framework8
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-objc
Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
Cocos2d for iOS and OS X, built using Objective-C
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:20 commits, 16 PRs, 29 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Cocos2d-objc framework, focusing on iOS platform-specific issues. Their work addressed typos in comments, corrected the behavior of UI elements (CCSlider) on iOS, resolved a memory leak related to color handling, and fixed issues with gesture recognizers (CCScrollView) on iOS. They also refactored code to remove compiler warnings.
objective-ccocoapodscocos2dswiftios
NoodlFroot/ObjectAL-for-Cocos2D
Sep 2015 - May 2023
Mac and iOS Audio development, minus the headache. ObjectAL is the easy Objective-C interface to OpenAL, AVAudioPlayer, and audio session management.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
objective-cminusavaudioplayeraudiomac
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