Software Engineer & Hobbyist

Richard
Pickup.

Building web apps, iOS apps, and developer tools (and a perpetually in development platform game with my son).
Based in UK.

20+ Years experience
5 Active projects
HP → Now Career span

Painting the 41st Millenium, coding in the current.

I'm a software engineer with a career spanning enterprise Java at Hewlett-Packard in Germany, running my own software company, IT management, and most recently full-time freelance web and mobile development.

An independent software developer building iOS and web applications. Current projects include a retail planogram editor, two iOS apps, a macOS markdown notes app, a permanently in development Cat based platform game and editor (try saying that 3 times fast) and BristleForge, a community site for the miniature painting hobby.

When I'm not coding, I'm painting Warhammer miniatures — mostly Chaos, across 40K, the Old World, and Horus Heresy.

TypeScript
SvelteKit
React / RN
Swift / SwiftUI
C# / .NET
PocketBase
Three.js
Docker

Warhammer painter.

40K, The Old World, Necromunda, Horus Heresy — mostly Chaos. I share all my painting on BristleForge, the community site I built and run.