Summary
Rick Mugridge is an experienced software developer, architect, and consultant based in Auckland with over a decade building concurrent, distributed systems and microservices using Scala, Rust, TypeScript, Java, and C#. As owner of Rimu Research and Principal Consultant at Hypr Innovation he coaches teams in TDD, continuous delivery, evolutionary design and agile practices while taking hands-on roles as a contract developer/architect. He’s the co-author (with Ward Cunningham) of "Fit for Developing Software" and the creator of useful TypeScript testing tools such as mismatched and thespian, reflecting a commitment to improving developer productivity. Comfortable across backend, serverless (AWS Lambda) and single-page web app stacks, he blends functional reactive programming and practical engineering to deliver resilient systems. Colleagues value his mix of deep concurrency expertise and pragmatic coaching that helps teams adopt better technical practices.
10 years of coding experience