Vincent Orr
Software Engineer at Input Output (IOHK)
United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolVincent Orr is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in functional programming languages—particularly Haskell, PureScript and Rust—alongside JavaScript. He has delivered full-stack systems for fintech and greentech applications, including blockchain-integrated accounting at Banyan and production Haskell services at IOHK. Vincent brings hands-on experience building developer workflows and CI practices, introducing testing, code review and release processes on distributed teams. He balances deep type-driven design and category-theory-informed architecture with pragmatic UI/UX improvements from his PureScript frontend work. Based in the UK, he pairs startup agility (multiple senior roles and founder experience) with disciplined engineering that prevents production failures under load. An avid functional programmer, he often gravitates toward niche stacks that prioritize correctness and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree multi media technology, Bachelor's degree multi media technology at Leeds Beckett University
English, French
Stackoverflow
1,703reputation
131kreached
21answers
27questions
redux
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
vim10
purescript10
chain10
haskell10
twitter10
binary-format10
cabal10
redux10
postgresql10
ada10
javascript10
reactive10
stack10
hackage10
emacs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
staltz/switch-path
May 2016 - Jun 2023
switch case for URLs, a small tool for routing in JavaScript
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 comments, 1 issue in 7 years 2 months
urlsjavascriptroutesroutingrouter
Cmdv/Haskell-Interview-Tests
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.