Ricki Hastings
Principal Engineer at eBay
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicki Hastings is a Principal Engineer with 15 years' experience building large-scale web platforms and developer-facing infrastructure, currently helping bring Web3 capabilities to eBay through KnownOrigin Labs. He combines front-end leadership—having architected multilingual, multi-tenant server-side React/TypeScript products and led teams of 20+ engineers—with backend and platform expertise across Node.js, Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres and Druid. At Peak he shifted from customer intelligence features to improving developer experience across the platform, showing a practical focus on engineer productivity as well as product delivery. Ricki’s background spans enterprise white-label products, real-time sports data APIs and R&D in decentralised marketplaces, reflecting a rare mix of production-grade reliability and R&D curiosity. Based in Stevenage, he brings both hands-on coding and architectural stewardship to cross-functional teams.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Computing BSc (Hons), Computing, 2:1, Applied Computing BSc (Hons), Computing, 2:1 at University of Cumbria
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Github Skills (200)
material-ui10
javascript10
socket10
json10
multi-user10
webpack10
irc10
react10
freenode10
react-components9
api9
developer-tools9
grpc-web9
api-client9
zero-configuration9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rickihastings/acorairc
May 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:172 commits in 3 months
ircanywhere/blog
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 9 months
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