Rikkey Paal
Software Engineer at Ocado Technology
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRikkey Paal is a software engineer based in England with 11 years of professional experience and a strong academic background, holding a Distinction in an Advanced Computer Science masters and a First Class undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex. He brings deep practical skills in automation, compilers, software analysis, refactoring, metaprogramming and code generation, often applying research-grade techniques to production problems. Currently at Ocado Technology, he excels in collaborative environments and is known for pragmatic tinkering—combining hacker curiosity with disciplined engineering. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex language and tooling concepts into maintainable systems and developer-facing automation. Despite a focus on low-level code transformation, he balances that with an eye for developer experience, making sophisticated tooling accessible to teams.
11 years of coding experience
Masters, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction, Masters, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction at University of Sussex
English
Github Skills (17)
linux9
tmpfs8
persistent8
home-manager8
nix7
react-native-app6
travis-ci6
steam5
java5
nixos5
storage5
dsl5
react-native4
docker4
nixpkgs4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
richousrick/MetaUtils
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
A collection of tools and utilities to help with metaprogramming and reflection.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 months
metaprogrammingreflection
richousrick/CPMerge
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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