Rob Pickering
Founder, Consultant at aplisay
Kendal, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Pickering is a veteran technologist and founder with four decades of commercial experience and 11 years focused on building and advising software businesses, most recently running consultancy aplisay and serving on Alertacall’s advisory board. He founded and scaled IPCortex from an overdraft-funded idea to a profitable telecoms software vendor and smooth exit, combining hands-on engineering instincts with operational leadership. A full-stack hacker comfortable in JavaScript, C and C++, he has deep expertise in real-time media, networking and high-availability architectures dating back to pioneering TCP/IP work at INMOS. Rob thrives on turning complex systems into practical products that improve how institutions operate, and he brings a rare blend of bootstrapped startup grit, Fortune-500 programme management, and ongoing advisory and angel activity. An unexpected through-line in his career is a persistent focus on microkernel-style, composable system thinking that still informs his product and architecture choices today.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Electronics, 1st, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Electronics, 1st at Kings College London
Github Skills (66)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aplisay/hackthelakes
Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
Hack the Lakes website
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
aplisay/llm-agent
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
LLM based Agent
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 43 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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