Paul Brian
Python Developer And Team Lead On Quartz Platform
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Brian is a pragmatic Python developer and team lead with 15 years’ experience building real-time, distributed analytics and monitoring systems for major financial institutions, currently leading work on the Quartz platform at Bank of America. He combines hands-on engineering in Python and Erlang with people leadership—having run multiple Agile teams, initiated internship programmes, and rebuilt IT departments into high-performance units. As founder and MD of Mikado Software he runs a distributed, transparent consulting business that prioritises work-life balance while delivering production-grade software. He champions getting open source into government (oss4gov.org) and has a track record of releasing useful internal tools as OSS, reflecting a commitment to practical reuse and civic tech. Paul is seeking technical advisory board roles and senior engineering positions in fintech or government where systems reliability and cross-team culture are paramount.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BroxbourneBachelor of Science (BSc) Comp Sci + Mgmt, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Comp Sci + Mgmt at King's College London
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Github Skills (48)
portable9
git9
github9
pullrequest9
docker8
python8
infrastructure8
infrastructure-management8
configuration-management7
iot7
scale7
zeromq7
salt7
remote-execution7
vbscript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikadosoftware/workstation
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Docker based portable Workstation
Contributions:53 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
workstationportabledocker
lifeisstillgood/story.ottersfromspace
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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