About Me #

I’m a fa­ther of two, hus­band and gen­eral pur­pose geek (in that or­der).
I’m a prin­ci­pal en­gi­neer at Skyscanner in London, with a fo­cus on de­vel­oper en­able­ment and pro­duc­tion plat­forms.

Technology-wise, I’m in­ter­ested in vir­tu­ally every­thing but have par­tic­u­lar in­ter­ests in:

• Developer ex­pe­ri­ence
• Software qual­ity and au­to­mated test­ing
• Java, Go, NodeJS, Python, Kubernetes, and a bunch of re­lated things
• Home au­toma­tion and elec­tron­ics

Projects/Open source #

I have a hand­ful of small pro­jects on GitHub, but one you may have heard of is Testcontainers, a Docker-based tool to aid in­te­grated test­ing in Java. I cre­ated Testcontainers sev­eral years ago, and it’s be­come al­most a de-facto tool for in­te­gra­tion test­ing in Java and other lan­guages. I was also co-founder of AtomicJar, a com­pany which de­vel­ops ser­vices that com­ple­ment the open source li­brary (and has since been ac­quired by Docker Inc).

Another quite dif­fer­ent pro­ject which I’m more ac­tive on is Turbolift, which I’ve worked on at Skyscanner to help us man­age im­prove­ments and up­grades to hun­dreds of mi­croser­vices and com­po­nents. Check out this blog post which ex­plains how this tool came to be.

I also de­vel­oped a few ran­dom things:

• eu­ston.wtf, a sim­ple tool to make catch­ing a train from Euston sta­tion a lit­tle eas­ier.
• week­ends, a print­able cal­en­dar gen­er­a­tor fo­cused on week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days.

Contact #

I’m @whichrich@mastodon.social on Mastodon.

I have some open source pro­jects on Github.

You can email me at rich.north@gmail.com, un­less you’re a spam­bot, in which case please don’t bother.