Rick Eyre
Principal Software Engineer at Softchoice
Canada
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Top SchoolRick Eyre is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and architecting enterprise software across finance, events, and IT services. Currently leading technical strategy and delivery at Softchoice, he has progressed from hands-on development to senior architecture and leadership roles at Scotiabank, RBCx, and EventMobi. He co-founded a startup (Lemon Peach), giving him practical product and entrepreneurial sensibilities alongside deep engineering craft. Rick emphasizes continuous improvement and mastery of the craft, blending pragmatic architecture with mentorship and team enablement. Based in Canada with a B.Tech. in Software Development from Seneca, he’s known for steady, incremental advancement of systems and teams rather than flashy one-off solutions. Colleagues would describe him as a reflective practitioner who treats software development as an evolving discipline and a sustained journey.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Development, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Development at Seneca Polytechnic
English
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Github Skills (184)
pluggable10
google-places10
websocket10
javascript10
browser10
feathers-service10
feathersjs10
application-framework10
webvtt10
feathers-authentication10
nodejs10
bit10
react-native10
google-places-autocomplete10
google-autocomplete10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/vtt.js
Jul 2013 - Mar 2015
A JavaScript implementation of the WebVTT specification
Contributions:370 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 8 months
javascriptwebvtt
caitp/webvtt
Dec 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:233 commits in 5 months
parsingparsing-librarywebvttparser
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