Neale Swinnerton
Principal Software Engineeer at N Swinnerton
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeale Swinnerton is a Principal Software Engineer and senior technologist with 30+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance systems across media, telecoms, and finance. He currently develops a high-capacity Rust simulator for stress-testing distributed systems, combining low-level systems programming, concurrency and performance optimisation with a pragmatic focus on operational simplicity. Over the past decade he has designed cloud-native, fault-tolerant architectures and large-scale data pipelines deployed on AWS and GCP, and has practical experience integrating ML to make systems more intelligent and automated. As an independent consultant and lead engineer he has repeatedly delivered production-grade infrastructure—from multi-AZ AWS deployments to event-driven microservices—while mentoring teams to ship reliable software under real-world constraints. A background in electrical and electronic engineering underpins his systems thinking and preference for rigorous, measurable engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Batchelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Batchelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of BirminghamKings School, Chester
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Github Skills (108)
clojure10
temporal10
jar9
datalog9
leiningen9
kaitai-struct9
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memgraph9
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uberjar9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sw1nn/prezto
Feb 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:20 pushes in 5 years 8 months
MastodonC/bifrost
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Safely archive data from Apache Kafka to S3 with no Hadoop dependencies :)
Contributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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