Rik Brown
Software Engineer at District
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Brown is a seasoned software engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building scalable client and server systems for consumer products and infrastructure. Currently at District, he enjoys working with React and Next.js while bringing deep backend and telemetry expertise honed at Snap and Amazon. At Snap he led Client SDKs for high-volume, privacy-aware telemetry, cutting bandwidth by over 50% with a protobuf envelope design and shipping a TypeScript/React web SDK for Snapchat for Web. At Amazon he designed infrastructure and SDKs that helped Amazon Go scale beyond proof-of-concept and built core video platform components including DRM and cross-platform APIs. Rik combines full-stack fluency with a pragmatic focus on efficiency, privacy, and measurable business metrics. Outside work he retains a curious, low-key persona suggested by his GitHub bio “Just another Rik in the wall,” reflecting a hands-on, unpretentious approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) First Class, Computer Science, BSc (Hons) First Class, Computer Science at University of Nottingham
English
Github Skills (200)
azure-functions10
usestate10
query-params10
browser10
querystring10
params10
schema-validation10
aws-lambda10
url-parameters10
nextjs10
type-safety10
react10
floating-ui9
openstreetmap9
tesla9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rikbrown/kotlin-pieces
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
rikbrown/jammos-game-server
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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