rnorth - Overview

Hi, I'm Richard 👋

Principal engineer based in London, working on developer experience, testing, and the platforms and tools engineers use every day.

🧪 I created Testcontainers in 2015 — throwaway, Docker-backed dependencies for integration tests. Now used across Java, .NET, Go, Node and Python at companies including Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Google.
🚀 Co-founded AtomicJar (Testcontainers Cloud), acquired by Docker in 2023.
🛠️ Currently at Skyscanner, where I build internal developer tooling — including turbolift, for mass code changes across a large service estate.
🤖 Lately focused on making AI agents genuinely useful inside large, real-world codebases.

I like building pragmatic tools that pay attention to what engineers actually need and get the job done.

Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

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A simple tool to help apply changes across many GitHub repositories simultaneously

Go 528 41
`gh` CLI extension to tidy GitHub notifications

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A `gh` extension for combining multiple PRs (e.g. Dependabot PRs) into one.

Shell 111 16