Colin Farr
Senior Software Engineer at NewDay
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Farr is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years' experience designing and implementing cloud-hosted, event-driven microservice architectures on AWS and Azure. He prefers .NET Core and C#, but pairs that expertise with a broad toolset—message buses, REST APIs, Redis, Elasticsearch and both SQL and NoSQL—to build high-performance, scalable services. Colin has led engineering efforts at consumer and enterprise-focused companies including NewDay, Zoopla, AWS and Just Eat, often improving latency and throughput through pragmatic architecture changes. He has a track record of shipping resilient systems for high-traffic products (e.g., Hudl2 at Tesco) and introducing background processing patterns like Azure WebJobs to optimise real-world performance. Known for combining hands-on development with architectural leadership, he also founded a neighbourhood data startup, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise-scale experience.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B, Information Technology (B); Physics (C); Biology (D), B, Information Technology (B); Physics (C); Biology (D) at Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (32)
razor10
dotnet10
asp-net-mvc10
csharp10
cross-platform9
asp-net-core9
linux9
windows9
dotnet-core9
entity-framework9
asp-net9
azure9
asp-net-core-mvc7
http-client6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clockworkmice/Zoopla.Net
May 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
clockworkmice/partnerapi-docs
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 month
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