Brian Ridley
Senior Software Developer at Monarch Digital Ltd
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ridley is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and leader with nearly two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in professional roles spanning startups, education, and regulatory technology. Currently a Senior Software Developer at the Financial Conduct Authority and director of his own consultancy, he brings deep expertise across front-end and back-end development, systems administration, and client-facing delivery. His MSc in Computer Software Engineering underpins a career of leading development teams and managing complex, large-scale projects for organizations such as Aurora Commerce and Skylab. Brian pairs technical shipping ability with strong technical writing and stakeholder communication, often translating research-driven requirements into practical teaching tools and commercial systems. Colleagues value his steady leadership and the uncommon combination of academic rigour with entrepreneurial pragmatism evident throughout his varied roles.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc IT, Computer Software Engineering, MSc IT, Computer Software Engineering at The University of Bolton
English
Github Skills (78)
categories10
parser10
interop10
nette10
shell10
content-negotiation10
doctrine10
typescript10
exec10
php10
unified-diffs10
rendering9
javascript9
phaser9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ptlis/shell-command
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
A better abstraction for running processes from PHP
Contributions:2 releases, 311 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 1 month
phpshellcommandexec
ptlis/diff-parser
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
A unified diff parser for PHP
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 94 commits in 8 years 1 month
parserphpunified-diffsdiff-parserdiff
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