Richard Gill, Developer in London, United Kingdom

Richard Gill

Software Developer

Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
January 28, 2016

Richard is a senior full-stack JavaScript engineer who previously worked at Stripe. He specializes in React Native, React, and Node.js with TypeScript. Richard has built and delivered over 20 React and React Native-based applications in his career.

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Portfolio

Stripe
Ruby, TypeScript
ZDEV
Node.js, JavaScript, React, React Native
McKinsey Digital Labs
Docker, CSS, HTML, React, JavaScript

Experience

REST APIs - 8 yearsJavaScript - 8 yearsNode.js - 7 yearsReact - 6 yearsNext.js - 6 yearsReact Native - 5 yearsTypeScript - 3 years

Location

London, United Kingdom

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, MacOS, Node.js, TypeScript, React, React Native

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is launching Klarna at Stripe.

Work Experience

2020 - 2023

Engineer

Stripe
  • Performed as the lead engineer for Stripe, launching Klarna on Stripe.
  • Spearheaded the launching of Stripe's Bank Transfer payment method as the team's engineer.
  • Acted as the lead technical contact when Amazon launched their polish site amazon.pl on Stripe.
Technologies: Ruby, TypeScript
2015 - 2018

Founder | CTO

ZDEV
  • Founded a 5-person software consultancy.
  • Delivered apps and website/server technology to multiple clients.
  • Managed a team of four developers.
  • Trained four apprentices with no previous coding experience. All four are successfully employed in the industry—their earnings increased 4x (Tiny.cc/zdev-staff).
  • Oversaw technology direction, code reviews, hiring, project management, staff training, sales, and marketing.
  • Built a ~£200,000/year business.
  • Oversaw multiple projects using the following technologies: JavaScript, React Native, React, Next.js, Node.js, Firebase, Heroku, and TypeScript.
Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, React, React Native
2015 - 2016

Developer

McKinsey Digital Labs
  • 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: Docker, CSS, HTML, React, JavaScript
2013 - 2015

Developer

Brevan Howard Hedge Fund
  • 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: JavaScript, R, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
2010 - 2013

Developer

Goldman Sachs
  • 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: Python, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C#, Java

Experience

Wash Doctors | Car-washing Application

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPVSEq9f6U
Wash Doctors is an application that helps people wash their cars at home.

I managed all the technology in the project, including the following:
• Two React Native applications deployed to the App and Play Stores.
• A React operations website to see bookings, messages, and customers.
• All the back-end APIs and other infrastructure written in Node.js.

Skills

Languages

HTML, JavaScript, Java, C#, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, CSS, R, Elixir, Haskell, Prolog

Frameworks

React Native, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Redux, Chrome

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, REST APIs

Paradigms

RESTful Development, Functional Programming, Cross-platform

Other

Consulting, Codebase Development, Chakra UI, Vite, Supabase, tRPC

Platforms

Firebase, iOS, MacOS, Docker, Blockchain Platforms

Tools

Git

Education

2006 - 2010

Master's of Engineering Degree (1st Class) in Computing

Imperial College London - London, UK