IEUAN RICHARDS
London
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer with 14 years of experience developing Java systems across finance, energy, telecoms, and gaming sectors. Have developed a variety of systems from low level messaging middleware to Spring based web applications. Expertise in designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures. Proficient in debugging complex codebases and transforming ambiguous requirements into clean, maintainable solutions. Recently integrated AI coding agents into workflows to enhance efficiency.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
MultiFi
London
12.2024 - Current
- Senior engineer on MultiFi's lending platform for SMEs, working across all areas of the system including onboarding, payments and fee / repayment collection.
- Leading a project to migrate our customer current account functionality from Modulr to ClearBank. This involves integration with payments APIs and ensuring strong consistency and resilience across multiple services.
- Working within a distributed, microservice-based architecture using gRPC and asynchronous messaging for inter-service communication and providing strong consistency guarantees.
- Building and maintaining services with Java, Spring and Hibernate, backed by MySQL, with Vaadin used for internal-facing UIs and deployed in AWS.
Senior Software Engineer
Senapt
London
04.2023 - 12.2024
- Led a small team responsible for the generation of bills for an energy supplier.
- Worked with a microservice based architecture built on Java 21 and Helidon, deployed in a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS with PostgreSQL and ArangoDB databases.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
Senior Software Engineer
EXFO
London
09.2019 - 04.2023
- Reduced system memory usage by an order of magnitude (terabytes to tens of gigabytes) by replacing the in-memory graph database with a disk-based alternative (Stardog), and re-wrote the service impact analysis algorithm to run on it — calculating impacts across hundreds of thousands of nodes in seconds.
- Senior member of a team building the Nova Context platform, integrating telecoms companies' disparate data to model their networks for fault diagnosis and prediction.
- Contributed to moving deployment from bare metal and VMs to a Kubernetes-based (k3s) cluster.
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Aspect Capital
London
06.2018 - 06.2019
- Worked on position management and trade execution systems for a trend-following hedge fund managing billions in assets, delivering options trading capability and other features.
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
Software AG
London
03.2016 - 06.2018
- Contributed to the Universal Messaging team by building a highly available message broker used across finance and retail, delivering tens of thousands of messages per second with millisecond latency. The platform was written without frameworks in early versions of Java and required a low level knowledge of computing fundamentals including concurrency, memory management and sockets.
- Recognized for being particularly adept at finding and fixing complex concurrency-related race conditions.
- Advanced to Senior Software Engineer in 2017 and soon took the lead on the team, facilitating stand-ups and planning sessions.
Software Engineer
IKON Science
London
06.2014 - 03.2016
- Developed greenfield project integrating geophysical functions into RokDoc desktop application for geoscientists in oil and gas industry.
Software Developer
OpenBet Retail
London
05.2012 - 07.2014
- Developed greenfield system for major bookmaker enabling customers to access accounts in-store and online, ensuring successful roll-out through rigorous automated testing.
Technical Business Analyst
Acturis
London
09.2010 - 09.2011
- Designed, specified, and tested new web services, investigating client-raised defects to ensure quality and functionality.
Education
BSc (Hons) - Physics with Theoretical Physics
University of Manchester
Manchester09-2010
Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni
Skills
- Java
- SQL (MySql / PostgreSQL)
- Spring
- Hibernate
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- JUnit
- JBehave
- Testcontainers
- Kiro
- Git
- Maven
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
MultiFi
12.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Senapt
04.2023 - 12.2024
Senior Software Engineer
EXFO
09.2019 - 04.2023
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Aspect Capital
06.2018 - 06.2019
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
Software AG
03.2016 - 06.2018
Software Engineer
IKON Science
06.2014 - 03.2016
Software Developer
OpenBet Retail
05.2012 - 07.2014
Technical Business Analyst
Acturis
09.2010 - 09.2011
BSc (Hons) - Physics with Theoretical Physics
University of Manchester
Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni
Personal Information
Title: Software Engineer