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rnorth/README.md

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.

📫 LinkedIn · rnorth.org

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  1. testcontainers/testcontainers-java testcontainers/testcontainers-java Public

    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.

    Java 8.7k 1.8k

  2. Skyscanner/turbolift Skyscanner/turbolift Public

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

    Go 526 41

  3. gh-tidy-notifications gh-tidy-notifications Public

    `gh` CLI extension to tidy GitHub notifications

    Shell 8 3

  4. gh-combine-prs gh-combine-prs Public archive

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

    Shell 109 16