Ricky Abell
Principal Software Engineer at GoDaddy
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicky Abell is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable front- and back-end systems, currently leading feature and quality work on GoDaddy Studio in Birmingham. He began as a self-taught game developer and has repeatedly turned experimental projects into production hits—from pioneering HTML5 mobile games at Derivco to UI work on Sea of Thieves at Rare. Ricky spans full-stack domains (TypeScript, React, Node, AWS) and has a track record of improving engineering practices, including test and linting initiatives that measurably reduced review cycles and improved quality. He has deep experience with real-time services and browser rendering stacks, having rewritten rendering pipelines at import.io and contributed to SMART Amp’s real-time infrastructure. Known for scaling small teams into high-impact departments, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-team coordination as a web guild lead. Outside product work he brings a playful engineering mindset—he once earned university credit for building Lego Mindstorm soccer robots.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours Computer Science, BSc Honours Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-Natal
English
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Github Skills (40)
nextjs10
browser10
react10
static-site-generator9
powertools9
javascript9
rxjs9
vercel9
azure-functions9
aws-lambda9
aws9
aws-serverless9
lambda9
serverless-applications9
compiler9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RickyAbell/RickyAbell.github.io
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
RickyAbell/SlidePebble
May 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
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