Reuben Gow
Staff Software Engineer at Zoa
Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolReuben Gow is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, primarily in Python, across startups and larger firms from BAE Systems to Bulb and Zoa. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to technical leadership, delivering reliable services and leading backend teams at CrowdScores and Zoa. Comfortable in both product-driven startups and regulated environments, he brings practical experience in scaling systems and mentoring engineers. Based in the Derbyshire Dales, he blends an MEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a pragmatic software-first mindset. Colleagues would describe him as a steady technical lead who prefers shipping robust solutions over chasing novelty. An understated strength is his track record of smoothing operational handoffs between engineering and production teams, reducing friction where it matters most.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (63)
python10
mqtt10
asyncio10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
garden9
internet-of-things9
parsing9
chromecast9
infrastructure8
retrying8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CrowdScores/seal
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
This is a Slack bot that publishes a team's pull requests to their Slack Channel, once provided the organisation name, the team members' github names, and a list of repos to follow. It is my first 20% project at GDS.
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
gdsfollowbotslack-botslack
muppet3000/rpi-eco-light
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Raspberry Pi based Owl Energy Monitor Light Indicator
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years
raspberry-pimonitorlightowlraspberry
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