Gideon Farrell
Chief Technology Officer at converge-io
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGideon Farrell is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer with 12 years of experience building software-driven solutions for physical industries, currently leading Converge’s platform to optimize construction materials, logistics, and sustainability. An ex-Cantab astrophysicist from the University of Cambridge, he combines rigorous scientific thinking with hands-on engineering—frequently prototyping in Haskell and publishing technical writing at gtf.io. Gideon brings a founder’s mindset to product and systems design, balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term research into efficiency and safety. He is vocal about the ethical responsibilities of technologists and aims to apply that ethic to improve one of the most foundational human industries. Based in London, he cultivates a small-but-deep technical footprint: shipping production systems while maintaining active, intentional open-source experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
A Level, A Level at St. Paul's SchoolBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at University of Cambridge
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
water10
computer-vision10
php10
opencv10
python10
bash10
ssh10
signing10
cabal10
graph10
elastic10
kibana10
devops10
image-processing10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gfarrell/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:326 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
gfarrell/gtf.io
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Personal website
Contributions:81 commits, 4 PRs, 121 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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