Richard North

Richard is a lifelong geek, and has worked professionally in software engineering for 12 years. His early career as a consultant took him through a wide variety of projects and industries, working at many layers of the stack. One of his main interests is helping developers be more happy and productive through tooling and automation. He currently works in Developer Enablement at Skyscanner, helping engineers to build and operate microservices at scale. Also, he is the creator of the Testcontainers project, having created the Java version in 2015 and acting as a core maintainer since.