Summary
Dickon Field is a seasoned principal technologist with 14+ years delivering resilient, scalable distributed systems and shaping technology strategy for financial and enterprise customers. He has led architecture and platform transformation at firms including SD Worx, Ceridian, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, combining hands-on delivery (CDN, load balancers, event-driven services) with organisational design and governance. Known for driving operational excellence, he has a track record of improving reliability and speed through event-driven architectures, devops automation and disposable environments. A certified Java developer with awards for innovation and presentations on reactive programming and dependency injection, he moves comfortably between technical authority and senior leadership. Based in Scotland, he pairs deep systems-level experience with a talent for translating complex business needs into practical, production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Bristol