Richard Conway
Group Chief Technology Officer at Acora - IT & Cybersecurity Managed Services
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Conway is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over 25 years of software engineering experience, currently serving as Group CTO at Acora and CEO/co-founder of Elastacloud, a 300-person consultancy focused on data engineering, data science and cloud solutions. He combines hands-on technical depth—from early C++ and .NET financial systems to modern Azure-native data platforms—with strategic product-building in sustainability, digital twins, and enterprise knowledge search. A former Microsoft Regional Director and retired Azure MVP, he has led initiatives like the Data Academy, Greener Data Platform and Knowledge Miner that bridge AI, emissions accounting and private LLM-enabled search at scale. His career spans finance, energy, legal and built environments, and includes pragmatic open-standards work in security and identity from earlier roles. Outside work he writes, speaks, contributes to open source and pursues astronomy and sailing, reflecting a curiosity that drives both technical excellence and commercial innovation.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Open UniversityEconomics / Computer Science, Economics / Computer Science at University of SussexMaster of Science - MS Network and Internet Technology, Master of Science - MS Network and Internet Technology at University of Greenwich
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
amazon-athena10
windows10
linux10
dotnet10
dotnet-core10
parquet10
csharp10
apache9
apache-spark9
big-data9
impala9
sdk8
java8
ftp-client8
azure-storage8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastacloud/dataframe-utils
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Util library to provide R-like dataframes and statistical functions over Parquet DataSet from parquet-dotnet
Contributions:60 commits, 8 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 months
dotnetdataframesutilparquetdataset
azurecoder/fluent-management
Oct 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:220 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
fluentazure
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