Richard Gill

London, United Kingdom

Member since December 4, 2015

Richard is a full-stack developer with a broad and versatile coding skill set. He helps small businesses and startups quickly with prototypes and ideas by building those things into reality quickly and efficiently. He has worked for 3 years at Goldman Sachs before moving to a hedge fund and then consulting for McKinsey Digital Labs.

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Portfolio

McKinsey Digital Labs
JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Docker
BHDG Systematic Trading
Ruby, Ruby On Rails, R, JavaScript
Goldman Sachs
Java, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python

Experience

JavaScript, 8 years
HTML, 8 years
RESTful APIs, 6 years
SASS, 3 years
React.js, 2 years
Webpack, 1 year
React Native, 1 year
Firebase, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac, Sublime, Git, Chrome

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded was a prototype iPhone app (front and back) in one month.

Employment

Developer
McKinsey Digital Labs
2015 - PRESENT
- Built a cutting edge UI to save hundreds of hours for a long, complex risk process for a large merchant bank.
- Worked with the DevOps team to deliver a containerized platform for continuous deployment.
Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Docker
Developer
BHDG Systematic Trading
2013 - 2015
- Wrote code to match trades saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
- Redesigned the architecture for a systematic trading system so that it uses modern technology stack.
- Worked on a business's critical systematic trading system for a hedge fund that was 1 billion dollars in size.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, R, JavaScript
Developer
Goldman Sachs
2010 - 2013
- Worked on large critical applications with a large team of developers.
- Wrote an app from scratch and delivered it within two months.
- Automated a regression tested large C# front-end; saving hundreds of man-hours per month.
Technologies: Java, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python

Experience

Actfit PT App (Development)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM1gXV-NQro&feature=youtu.be
I built Actfit PT for a client in 1 month. It was built using React Native and Ruby on Rails.
ZDEV Website (Development)
http://z-dev.io
I built ZDEV's website in a few days.
Node Seed (Development)
https://github.com/z-dev/node-seed
The code base that I use when starting a new project in Node.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, HTML, SASS
Frameworks
React Native, Redux
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React.js
Tools
Webpack
Paradigms
Functional Programming
Misc
RESTful APIs
Platforms
Firebase, iOS

Education

Master's of Engineering 1st Class degree in Computing
Imperial College London - London, UK
2006 - 2010

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