Oliver Ford
Software Development Engineer III at GoCardless
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Ford is a Software Development Engineer III with 11 years' experience building cloud-native services and IoT platforms, currently focused on data and services in AgTech. Trained as an Electronic & Information Engineer, he brings strong systems thinking and a habit of digging into RFCs and textbook-level details to solve technically interesting problems that bridge software and the physical world. He is proficient in Python, Terraform, and AWS, has written Terraform provider code in Go and experimented with Rust, Svelte, and TypeScript in open-source projects, and has contributed reliability and version-management improvements to notable repos like tfenv and node-coap. Curious about practical AI, he explores where LLM tooling meaningfully boosts productivity while remaining pragmatic about its adoption in organisations. Outside work he maintains open-source projects, enjoys hands-on making and fixing, and is learning Hindi—often via Bollywood films.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs & GCE A levels, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Electronics, GCSEs & GCE A levels, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Electronics at The Thomas Hardye SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Information Engineering at Imperial College London
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
javascript10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
terraform10
cvs10
terraformer10
script10
latex10
font-awesome10
management10
version-control10
sh10
automated-tests10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
posquit0/Awesome-CV
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
:page_facing_up: Awesome CV is LaTeX template for your outstanding job application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 11 commits, 66 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the LaTeX template by fixing issues related to the rendering of FontAwesome icons and updating dependencies. They addressed a redefinition issue related to the `\FA` command, and also updated the template to include social links for ResearchGate and Orcid, expanding the features of the CV. The user also fixed a warning message related to file changes during the build process.
templatexelatexpdfcoverletteroverleaf
tfutils/tfenv
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Terraform version manager
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on enhancing the `tfenv` Terraform version manager by adding features related to automated version management. They implemented and tested functionality for installing and using specific Terraform versions, particularly `min-required` and `latest-allowed` versions, based on the configuration files. This involved modifying core scripts to handle version resolution and integration with Terraform's `-chdir` functionality, while also writing new tests for the added features.
terragruntbashterraform-version-managerterraformterraform-provider
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