Ian Vaughan
Lead Engineer at Cutover
Crawley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Vaughan is a pragmatic engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling production systems across fintech, logistics, and defense. Currently a Lead Engineer at Cutover and former CTO of Outfund, he combines hands-on expertise in Elixir, Clojure, Ruby, Java and Node with deep operational knowledge of Postgres, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Docker/K8s and CI/CD pipelines. He has a track record of evolving monoliths into resilient microservices, designing high-throughput transaction platforms, and creating engineering cultures that emphasize testing, pairing and continuous learning. Ian’s background in real-time and embedded systems gives him a strong appreciation for low-latency design and rigorous release processes that benefit modern distributed systems. Based in Crawley, UK, he enjoys mentoring across skill levels and prioritises maintainable software and clear product-focused tradeoffs.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Java, C/C++, Ada95, Cobol, Prolog, SQL/Paradox, UML, Computing, Java, C/C++, Ada95, Cobol, Prolog, SQL/Paradox, UML at Solent University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
quiqupltd/kafka_ex
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Kafka client library for Elixir
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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IanVaughan/loggie
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
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