Summary
Rory Pinkney is a full stack software engineer based in Leeds with nine years of professional experience and a First Class Masters in Computing Science from the University of East Anglia. He has delivered production web and mobile systems for clients and through his own contracting business, Polysoft IT, shipping full stack JavaScript applications that attracted thousands of users. At PSSL he led a major backend redesign that noticeably improved performance and reliability, and he has experience across Vue.js, .NET/Entity Framework, MSSQL, Flutter and CI on Azure. Rory combines rapid learning—having progressed from no prior coding experience to award-winning academic performance—with practical product delivery, including an ARMv7 web simulator and a social music app. Now at IBM, he brings both hands-on engineering and an entrepreneurial mindset, plus a long-standing creative streak as a guitarist of over a decade.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The King's (The Cathedral) School
Master of Computing Science Computer Science, Master of Computing Science Computer Science at University of East Anglia