Rich Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Peach
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cardiff with a PhD in computational biology and over a decade of experience bridging research-grade cognitive modeling and production engineering. He has built data and platform systems across startups and media firms, shipping ML model deployments, serverless pipelines and data platforms using Python, Java, C++ and cloud-native tools like AWS Lambda, Terraform and Spark. His background uniquely blends cognitive science research—where he rewrote and extended a UK-wide cognitive model and published papers—with hands-on delivery of scalable analytics and AI features in industry. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical writing and system design, and he routinely translates complex scientific ideas into pragmatic, maintainable software.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational biology, PhD Computational biology at Aberystwyth UniversityNanodegree Deep Learning, Nanodegree Deep Learning at UdacityGithub contributions (3)
Moments-of-Space/rq-scheduler
Nov 2021 - May 2023
A lightweight library that adds job scheduling capabilities to RQ (Redis Queue)
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
redisschedulingschedulerjobredis-queue
Moments-of-Space/django-push-notifications
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Send push notifications to mobile devices through GCM or APNS in Django.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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