Summary
Ian Relf is a seasoned BI and DevOps engineer with over 16 years in financial services and a career stretching back to defence and telecommunications, now focusing on Tableau and cloud-based data quality reporting for the Home Office on AWS. He combines deep hands-on skills in QlikView, NPrinting and SQL with pragmatic DevOps practices, Git proficiency and a strong background in Java/C++ and Unix tooling. Ian is delivery-focused and trusted by stakeholders, evidenced by repeated contract renewals and promotions across banks and global enterprises. He has repeatedly built generic, reusable data collection and reporting solutions for regulatory and asset-data programmes, showing an ability to turn complex data into auditable BI products. Comfortable across the full project lifecycle, he brings systems-level thinking from early work on scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems at Bell Labs and large banks. An engineer by training (BEng, University of Warwick) who was fast-tracked through a Ministry of Defence apprenticeship, he pairs academic rigour with decades of production-grade delivery.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Engineering Electronics, BEng, Engineering Electronics at University of Warwick