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 (100)
categories10
persistence10
rendering10
nette10
negotiation10
content-negotiation10
doctrine10
typescript10
object-mapper10
cubic-bezier10
php10
unified-diffs10
bundle9
javascript9
static-analysis9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ptlis/vcs
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:106 commits, 33 pushes in 8 months
ptlis/conneg-bundle
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 26 days
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