Jack Rickard

Background

About Jack Rickard

I'm a senior software engineer passionate about solving complex technical challenges and driving innovation in high-performance systems. With expertise in network protocols, Rust, C#, distributed systems (and a whole bunch of other stuff I've found exciting over the years), I specialize in architecting and implementing robust, scalable solutions.My experience spans:* Backend & Systems Programming* High-Availability Architecture* Networking & telecommunications protocols* Cryptography & Security* Mentoring & Technical LeadershipI thrive on tackling challenging problems and am always eager to learn and grow. Whether it's contributing to IETF standards, breaking cryptography in competitions, exploring language design, or building a CPU emulator, I bring a deep intellectual curiosity to everything I do.Beyond my core work, I'm passionate about:* Programming Language Design - Programming languages are *the* tool we use to interact with computation. I've spent a lot of time exploring garbage collection, undefined behaviour, type systems, and more, in order to get closer to understanding how everything works.* Graphics Programming - GPUs are remarkably different to CPUs which makes programming for them an interesting challenge. While learning about how they work I've written a simple game engine (or two) and contributed to the gfx-rs open-source project which unifies graphics APIs.* Game Development - This is a fun mix of programming, communication, psychology, and more. I've written a few small games including one that was one of the winners of a game jam.Open to interesting technical discussions and collaboration opportunities.