Richard Wheeler
Developer at Zest
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Wheeler is a developer with 14 years of professional experience based in London, currently building product features and systems at Zest after progressing from junior and technical product engineering roles. His background spans software development in high-performance environments, including a long stint at Hawk-Eye Innovations, and senior product engineering work at Staffcare. He combines a formal First-class BSc in Multimedia Technology and Design with hands-on experience in product-focused engineering, bridging design sensibility and practical implementation. Outside commercial work he runs a research lab at the University of Edinburgh studying parasite cell biology and microscopy, bringing scientific rigour and microscopy-informed image/graphics skills to his engineering approach. That blend of biology, microscopy, graphics and software gives him a distinctive perspective on visualization, tooling and data-driven product problems. Colleagues know him for translating complex domain requirements into usable, well-engineered solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Multimedia Technology and Design, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Multimedia Technology and Design, First at The University of Kent
Github Skills (39)
simulation10
sandbox10
gameplay10
transport10
genomes10
isometric10
look-and-feel10
game-development10
meta9
ssa9
genome-assembly9
dub9
population-genetics8
comparative-genomics8
sequence8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zephyris/tryptag
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Python module for accessing and handling TrypTag genome-wide protein localisation project data
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 9 months
FreeRCT/FreeRCT-oldsvn
Sep 2011 - Sep 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 11 months
lookfreerctlook-and-feelgamecaptures
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