Neil Singh
Software Engineer
Windsor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Singh is a software engineer with nine years of professional experience and a decades-deep background in systems and embedded programming, from assembly-driven microcontrollers to distributed web backends. He favors reliability and performance, has built embedded Linux devices, mobile OS/apps and multi-threaded backend tooling, and has led development of high-throughput messaging and content ingestion systems. A co-founder who ran backend and server operations for a web design firm, he later supported global travel customers at Amadeus, automating analysis of millions of transactions and stabilising production services. Neil is actively learning Rust and contributes to notable open-source projects like Ockam, where he has improved core networking reliability through refactors and tests—evidence of his pragmatic focus on maintainability. Comfortable working across cultures from the UK to Spain and Thailand, he combines hands-on engineering with clear communication, autonomy and a habit of turning operational issues into industrialised processes.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry, Computer Science, MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry, Computer Science at The Open UniversityBSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Computer Science, BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (12)
distributed-systems10
rust10
testing10
encryption9
messaging9
user-authentication9
authentication9
context-api8
end-to-end-encryption8
tcp8
authorization7
authorizations7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 35 commits, 37 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the Ockam project by implementing and testing Rust code. Their work included fixing variable names and updating documentation examples, alongside adding tests for specific TCP inlet and outlet examples. Furthermore, they refactored code to use `context::send_and_receive()` and addressed issues related to payload parsing and control channel handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the core networking components. The user's efforts included refactoring existing code and adding new features, as demonstrated by the "send_and_receive" addition to the context
authorizationend-to-end-encryptionmutual-authenticationmessagingauthentication
neil2468/learn_rust
Jun 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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