Richard Neeve
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Neeve is a pragmatic software engineer with six years’ experience specializing in turning around critical deliveries, managing third-party vendors, and driving sustainable process improvements. He combines hands-on front-end and test automation skills with delivery-focused strategy, evidenced by contributions to the BBC's VideoContext project where he strengthened visual regression testing and Docker-based Cypress infrastructure. Based in England, he excels at stabilizing fragile projects and building maintainable test suites that reduce regressions and speed releases. Known for blending technical rigor with practical delivery leadership, he brings a 1st Class honours foundation from Brunel University and a track record of making complex visual testing reliably repeatable.
7 years of coding experience
1st Class (Hons), 1st Class (Hons) at Brunel University
Github Skills (12)
html10
javascript10
cypress10
360-video10
test-automation10
dockers9
webgl9
docker9
renderer8
graph8
graphing8
html5-video8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/VideoContext
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
An experimental HTML5 & WebGL video composition and rendering API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 15 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard significantly improved the test suite for the video composition and rendering API. They focused on enhancing the precision of screenshot tests, allowing for snapshot option overrides, and ensuring accurate visual regression testing for various transition effects. Furthermore, the user added new tests for effects and updated the testing infrastructure, including the use of Docker for Cypress. Their work contributed to the reliability and maintainability of the project's visual testing process.
renderingwebglvideohtml5-videojavascript
richski/json-formatter-js
Oct 2019 - Apr 2024
Render JSON objects in beautiful HTML (pure JavaScript)
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
javascriptjson-objects
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