Richard Conway
Group Chief Technology Officer at Elastacloud Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
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
36reputation
3kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (55)
amazon-athena10
apache-spark10
windows10
linux10
dotnet10
dotnet-core10
parquet10
impala10
big-data9
clustering9
azure-storage8
azure8
extractor8
time-series8
spark7
Programming languages (7)
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
dataframedataframesdotnetparquetstats
elastacloud/DotPrompt.Sql
Jan 2025 - Apr 2026
A library which allows you to store prompt files from the DotPrompt format in a SQL database
Contributions:4 releases, 9 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sql-database
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.