Rikki Tooley
Chief at Easton Chilli
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRikki Tooley is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and engineering leader with 22 years of experience, now blending technical leadership with entrepreneurship from Bristol. He has led and grown teams at TravelLocal—driving platform transitions, mentoring engineers, and shepherding a merger migration—and earlier built real-time recommendation systems and tooling at The Filter. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, Rikki has hands-on experience in architecture, platform migrations, and scaling developer teams through periods of rapid change. Since 2020 he has also founded and runs Easton Chilli, producing award-winning chilli sauces—a creative side business that reflects his product-minded, customer-focused approach. Pragmatic and adaptable, he excels at turning complex technical challenges into reliable, user-centred solutions while keeping an eye for new revenue-generating experiments.
22 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Bath
English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
1,127reputation
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30answers
19questions
Github Skills (200)
nuget10
opensearch10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
truncate10
docker-desktop10
package-manager-tool10
chocolatey10
publish10
wysiwyg10
visual-studio10
declarative10
elasticsearch10
isolation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
travellocal/babel-plugin-declare-const-enum
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Babel plugin to rewrite usages of const enums from d.ts files.
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
babelconstsourcemapsbabel-pluginrewrite
inflatablefriends/lastfm
Jun 2013 - May 2021
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 399 commits in 8 years
net-librarydotnetnetstandardpcl-librarylastfm
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