Ollie Riches is a senior .NET software developer with 14+ years building high-performance WPF/UIs and enterprise tooling for tier-1 investment banks and financial services. He specialises in modernising legacy valuation and trading systems—most recently porting multi-million‑point Excel/Access fund valuation workflows to a .NET 6/7 WPF app that cut run-times from minutes to under 30 seconds and stabilized EOD processes. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks, he applies reactive patterns, CI/CD and telemetry to deliver resilient, non-blocking UIs and fast feedback loops. He has repeatedly introduced professional engineering practices (TeamCity, package management, continuous testing) to raise quality and delivery cadence. A London-based consultant and active open-source maintainer, his NuGet contributions have amassed over one million downloads, reflecting practical libraries used across the ecosystem.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Birmingham
Electronic Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Electronic Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Salford
A simple F# REPL engine for use in an WPF application
Contributions:129 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 6 years
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