Richard Patching
Senior Software Engineer at Krystal
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Patching is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years' experience building and improving web and mobile applications, currently contributing at Krystal after a senior engineering role at Healios. A longtime Ruby and JavaScript specialist, he has deep practical experience across Rails, Sinatra, AngularJS, Node.js and iOS, paired with test-driven practices (RSpec, Cucumber) and agile delivery. He founded Just Add Pixels in 2011, helping bootstrap startups and shipping large-scale systems as a hands-on consultant and technical lead. Comfortable working solo or in teams, he also shares knowledge publicly—presenting talks like “Building an MVC application with Electron and AngularJS”—and brings an entrepreneur’s mindset to product-focused engineering. Based in Folkestone, he combines pragmatic full-stack craftsmanship with a knack for turning early-stage ideas into production-ready software.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Games Development at University of South Wales
Github Skills (40)
disk-based10
game-engine9
zola9
newsletter9
json-database9
rust-crates9
api9
game-development9
rust8
tabletop8
mongodb8
disk8
open-source8
godot8
nodejs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
patchfx/transpose_chords
Jun 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 11 months
musicruby-libraryrubychords
patchfx/astar
Nov 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 6 months
pathfinding
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