Ethan Brierley
Senior Software Engineer at TrueLayer
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEthan Brierley is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and tooling, currently at TrueLayer. He programs fluently across functional and object-oriented paradigms and maintains a multilingual GitHub portfolio featuring Rust, Haskell, Python, PHP, JavaScript and C#. Ethan is an active open-source contributor with notable work in the Rust ecosystem—improving Cargo's dependency resolution and metadata—and contributions to projects like Mun and Blender. He brings practical experience shipping CLI tooling, dependency-resolution fixes, and refactors that improve developer workflows, and he enjoys learning new languages and paradigms as part of his craft. Based in England, he pairs production-grade engineering with a curiosity for language design and low-level interoperability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
ALevels: Computer Science Maths Further Maths and Physics, ALevels: Computer Science Maths Further Maths and Physics at East Sussex College Eastbourne
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Github Skills (14)
command-line10
dependency-management10
command-line-interface10
lang10
develop10
rust10
cargo10
language-design10
package-manager10
new-language10
cli10
testing10
metadata9
scripting8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/cargo
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 3 PRs, 20 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the Cargo package manager by addressing issues and implementing features related to dependency resolution and metadata output. They fixed a warning related to resolver version mismatches and generalized suggestions for ambiguous package specifications. The user also introduced a new unstable flag for precise pre-release version selection and improved the output of cargo metadata.
rustpackage-managercargo
mun-lang/mun
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Source code for the Mun language and runtime.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the Mun language's command-line interface (CLI). Their work included adding the `init` and `new` subcommands for project creation, refactoring CLI operations into separate modules, and reworking tests to include these new subcommands. They also addressed documentation comments and integrated `start` function enhancements.
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