Paul Reardon
Principal Engineer at Sokin
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Reardon is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of enterprise experience across Australia’s justice system and London’s FinTech scene, now serving as VP of Engineering at Sokin. He specializes in resilient software architecture, scalable distributed systems, event-driven design, security, and cloud infrastructure, and has a track record of defining long-term technical roadmaps while remaining a hands-on contributor. A pragmatic mentor, he builds high-performing teams and fosters a culture of shared responsibility and continuous learning that pairs veteran judgment with junior curiosity. Paul is an active open-source contributor—his work improving Azure Service Bus integration in the Brighter .NET messaging framework demonstrates his attention to reliability, error handling, and operational edge cases like dead-lettering and retry semantics. Based in London with a background in network systems and software architecture from QUT, he combines public-sector rigor with fintech speed to deliver secure, production-grade global payment platforms.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Network Systems\ Software Architecture, Bachelor of Information Technology Network Systems\ Software Architecture at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (9)
azure-service-bus10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
messaging10
message-queue10
dotnet-core10
servicebus9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BrighterCommand/Brighter
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 84 reviews, 126 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the Azure Service Bus integration within the Brighter framework. They implemented features to handle missing channels, added configurable acknowledgement modes (PeekLock/ReceiveAndDelete), and introduced a dead-lettering mechanism. The user also addressed issues, such as ensuring correct message handling during retries and providing better error handling.
vertical-slice-architecturecommand-processorc-sharpdotnetcorenuget-packages
preardon/Brighter
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024
Command Dispatcher, Processor, and Distributed Task Queue
Contributions:320 pushes, 224 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 3 months
golangtask-queuecommand-dispatcherdispatcherdistributed
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