Robbie Mccorkell
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at ScienceMachine
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobbie Mccorkell is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of experience building full-stack and infrastructure-first products across startups and enterprise clients in the UK. He blends pragmatic engineering leadership—formerly as CTO and founding engineer at Leap Labs and Head of Engineering at Salve—with deep hands-on work in Python, Node.js, React, and cloud-native GPU infrastructure. Robbie has designed AutoML and reproducible GPU experimentation platforms using PyTorch, Ray Tune and Kubernetes, and has a track record of shipping customer-facing mobile and web platforms for clients like ASOS, Tesco and Santander. He also contributes to open-source tooling (notably enhancements to the i3pystatus status bar modules), showing attention to small, high-quality fixes as well as new features. A physicist by training (MSc Physics), he pairs analytical rigor with a bias for product-focused automation and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as a technical generalist who reliably turns research-grade ideas into production systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels : Maths Physics ICT, A-Levels : Maths Physics ICT at Chipping Campden SchoolPhysics, Physics at University of AucklandMSc Physics, MSc Physics at University of Exeter
Github Skills (6)
python10
stat10
slstatus10
i310
taskwarrior9
mpd7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
enkore/i3pystatus
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Robbie primarily contributed to the `i3pystatus` project by implementing and modifying modules, specifically `mpd.py`, `ping.py`, and `taskwarrior.py`. Their work included fixing bugs, such as correcting the filename in the MPD module and preventing `KeyError` in the taskwarrior module. They added new functionality by incorporating the project field in the taskwarrior module and introduced a reset_next_task callback. They also improved code style through minor adjustments.
i3statuspythonreplacementi3bar
RobinMcCorkell/shaderlock
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Wayland (wlroots) lockscreen powered by the GPU
Contributions:47 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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