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:
And outside of pure technology-related pursuits:
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 is developing services that complement the open source library.
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’m @whichrich@mastodon.social on Mastodon.
I’m richnorth on keybase.io.
I’m @whichrich on Twitter - although not really using it nowadays.
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.