Richard Bradfield
CTO at Platformed
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bradfield is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in England with 11 years of hands-on engineering and management experience across fintech and enterprise software. He has led full-stack engineering teams and data insights initiatives—most recently modernising KYC data discovery and self-service visualisation at Moody’s Analytics after leading product and engineering at PassFort. Comfortable shifting between code and strategy, he has deep backend experience (Java, Scala, Python, C++) and has contributed to open-source Rust web framework rouille, improving code quality and dependency management. His background includes building trading-platform integrations and test automation for large-scale infrastructure, evidencing a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Known for turning complex regulatory and data challenges into streamlined customer journeys, he blends product sensibility with engineering discipline. He holds a Computer Science degree from Queen’s University Belfast and brings an uncommon mix of low-level technical chops and customer-facing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (10)
http10
web-framework10
rust10
server10
code-cleanup9
maintenance9
dependency-management9
refactoring8
debug8
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tomaka/rouille
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Web framework in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 44 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `rouille` web framework, written in Rust. Their contributions include fixing bugs and addressing Clippy lints to improve code quality and maintainability. They also updated dependencies, particularly to newer versions of the `time` and `tiny-http` libraries. Additionally, the user made changes to the example database application, improving its functionality.
rustframeworkweb-frameworkserver
bradfier/rockclock
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Motorsport Timer to RockBLOCK Bridge
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
timerbridgemotorsportrockblock
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