Neil Ord
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorNeil Ord is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, reactive systems across media, finance, health, and public sectors, now serving as Vice President of Software Engineering at SiriusXM. He combines deep JVM expertise from early work on the IBM JDK and WebSphere Liberty with a long-running focus on Scala and the Lightbend stack to deliver pragmatic, high-performance architectures. Comfortable in both enterprise and startup environments, he has led teams at Disney Streaming and McLaren Applied Technologies, translating domain complexity into production-grade data and streaming solutions. Neil is equally fluent in DevOps, AWS, and Apache Spark, and emphasizes Agile practices to quickly realize business value. Colleagues value his client-facing experience and ability to bridge low-level platform work with product delivery. An MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) underpins his analytical approach to engineering trade-offs and performance tuning.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,043reputation
107kreached
9answers
3questions
apache-spark
top-5%
Github Skills (52)
apache-spark9
docker9
go8
dynamodb8
compiler-plugin8
golang8
ecosystem8
container7
scala7
moby7
assemble7
macros7
h27
xml6
aws-app-mesh6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NoOrdInaryGuy/akka-http-examples
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 months
experimentationreactivemongoakka-httpscalaakka
NoOrdInaryGuy/oh-my-zsh-custom
Feb 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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