Finn Lidbetter
Senior Software Engineer at RideCo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFinn Lidbetter is a Senior Software Engineer based in Waterloo with 10 years of experience building production systems and shipping algorithmic improvements at RideCo’s Algorithms and Optimization team. He holds a Master’s in Mathematics (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo and an interdisciplinary First Class Honours degree with distinction, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation in CS, math, and philosophy. Finn combines competitive programming rigor with hands-on backend engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like dramatiq where he added features, fixed threading bugs, and improved test and concurrency configurations. His background includes teaching and research roles in theoretical computer science and graph theory, which inform his careful, research-driven approach to complex system design. Colleagues know him for turning formal reasoning into pragmatic, reliable solutions for real-world transit optimization.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Interdisciplinary Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.2/4.3 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Interdisciplinary Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.2/4.3 GPA at Mount Allison UniversityMaster's of Mathematics, Computer Science, 95.5/100 GPA, Master's of Mathematics, Computer Science, 95.5/100 GPA at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (15)
task-management10
middleware10
python10
testing10
thread9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
redis9
threaded9
rabbitmq9
test-runner8
gevent8
job-runner8
runner8
tasker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Bogdanp/dramatiq
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Finn primarily contributed to the `dramatiq` library by implementing new features and addressing bug fixes. Their work included adding functionality for message age limits, fixing threading issues, and adding support for gevent. They also refactored tests and added support for zero backoff configurations for actors and messages.
pythonredisbackground-taskreliabletask-runner
FinnLidbetter/avoiding-collinearity
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 134 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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