Richard Connon
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Connon is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bristol with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. He combines deep Linux/UNIX and networking expertise with hands-on experience in configuration management and SRE roles, having moved from campus and enterprise operations into cloud platform engineering at Oracle. At Oracle he contributed to the open-source Fn Project and OCI Functions, focusing on backend infrastructure, database migrations, and ensuring compatibility with third-party datastores—work that improved reliability and feature support like tmpfs IOFS. Richard has a track record of automating repeatable operations (Puppet, Chef, Opsview) and modernizing monitoring and deployment workflows across physical and virtual environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design choices that bridge ops and dev, and he brings a systems-thinking approach informed by both storage/Fibre Channel expertise and serverless platform internals. He holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol and prefers solving problems at the intersection of networking, storage, and cloud orchestration.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Culcheth CollegeMEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (16)
database-migrations10
serverless10
database-migration10
go10
dockers9
testing9
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
container9
docker9
postgresql8
apidoc7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fnproject/fn
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
The container native, cloud agnostic serverless platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 35 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the serverless platform, focusing on database migrations and data model improvements. Their work involved altering database schemas, adding new fields, and modifying table structures to enhance data storage and retrieval. They also worked on testing and refactoring existing code to improve its overall reliability and ensure compatibility with third-party datastore implementations. The user's contributions included modifying the platform's agent and configuration files to support new features and configurations, most notably for the implementation of tmpfs IOFS.
containershands-onswarmcloud-agnosticagnostic
riconnon/django-allauth
May 2017 - Dec 2023
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Contributions:26 pushes, 7 branches, 9 tags in 6 years 8 months
pythonpartyintegrateddjangoregistration
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