Paul Ruane
Senior Developer at Elwood
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Ruane is a seasoned Senior Developer based in London with 14 years of professional experience building robust, low-latency financial systems and tooling. He has led design and implementation efforts for multi-tier FX order platforms and risk engines at major banks, improving reliability, testability and extensibility while driving down production incidents. Comfortable across backend systems and CLI tooling, Paul contributes to open-source projects such as the tmsu file-tagging VFS where he implemented database/tag manipulation features and resolved complex file-path and duplicate-file issues. He blends deep hands-on C# development with systems thinking—having introduced integration testing practices that materially reduced regressions—and has a track record of diagnosing costly memory problems at scale. Pragmatic and steady under pressure, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering discipline with a developer’s curiosity for elegant, practical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, 2:1, BSc, Computer Science, 2:1 at Loughborough UniversityGCSE, GCSE at Shirley High School
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Github contributions (5)
oniony/TMSU
Oct 2011 - Nov 2022
TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Command-line Interface (CLI) Tool Contributor
Back-end Developer & Command-line Interface (CLI) Tool ContributorContributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 1202 commits in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature implementations for the `tmsu` command-line tool, a tagging utility for files. Their work focused on improving the software's core functionality, including addressing issues with file paths, duplicate files, and tag value handling. The user also implemented a new feature allowing users to create and modify database values and tags via the VFS. These contributions demonstrate expertise in the internal mechanics of the tool and in building new features.
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oniony/transfix
Apr 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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