Ian Cooper
Senior Principal Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarIan Cooper is a Senior Principal Engineer in London with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering resilient distributed systems and messaging architectures. Currently at Just Eat Takeaway.com, he blends hands-on back-end engineering with architecture leadership, having previously led application architecture at Huddle and multiple development teams across fintech and enterprise firms. An active open-source polyglot, Ian contributes to the Brighter framework—splitting and hardening test suites for RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka and Redis—to make messaging integrations more testable and maintainable. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship and mentoring, he balances deep infrastructure know-how with a community-facing persona as a founder and speaker in the London developer scene. Unusually for a principal engineer, he brings a vivid personal brand—tabletop gamer, tattooed and bearded—that helps him connect authentically with diverse teams.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
csharp10
message-queue10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
command-line9
aws9
redis9
command-execution9
kafka9
rabbitmq9
event-driven-architecture9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BrighterCommand/Brighter
Jan 2011 - Jan 2023
A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:54 releases, 401 reviews, 2300 commits in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian's commits primarily focused on restructuring and splitting tests related to various message queue implementations within the Brighter framework. They moved test suites for different message queues (RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Kafka, and Redis) into their own projects to isolate infrastructure dependencies. In addition, the user made dependency updates to ensure tests built successfully.
vertical-slice-architecturecommand-processorc-sharpdotnetcorenuget-packages
spadger/Paramore
Jun 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:349 commits in 2 years 11 months
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