Phil Richman
Senior Software Developer at Cassini
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Richman is a senior software developer and hands-on engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building scalable FinTech and web platforms, fluent in Python, SQL and JavaScript and experienced with Kafka, Docker, Spring Boot/Kotlin and microservice architectures. He has driven large migrations and data pipelines—at Udemy he led the move from monolith to event-driven services and processed ~100M daily events for analytics—and at Cassini he built a central reference and market data platform and automated support workflows for trading clients. A Cambridge-trained mathematician with deep domain experience in derivatives trading systems from Fidessa, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic delivery and a focus on autonomy, decoupling and developer experience. Comfortable mentoring teams and presenting to customers, he champions cross-functional collaboration to learn problem spaces alongside trading and research teams. Notably, he pairs production-grade backend engineering with familiarity in ML tooling (sklearn, pandas), enabling data-informed product decisions in FinTech contexts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level, A-Level at Colchester Royal Grammar SchoolMASt, Mathematics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos), MASt, Mathematics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) at University of CambridgeMPhys (Hons), Physics, First Class, MPhys (Hons), Physics, First Class at University of Durham
Github Skills (34)
python10
django10
html5-audio10
api10
rest10
video-player10
django-rest-framework10
player10
videojs10
rest-api10
html5-video10
javascript9
html9
twine8
eslint-config8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
practual/advent_of_code_2019
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
practual/blog
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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