Richard Matheson
Head Of Engineering at Fifth Row Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Matheson is a Head of Engineering based in London with nine years’ focused experience in low-latency fintech systems and a broader development background stretching back through senior roles at Thomson Reuters and Deloitte. He combines hands-on systems programming in Rust and C++ with full-stack experience (C#, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL) and a track record of leading front-end and product delivery for financial products. As a manager and engineering leader he blends Scrum discipline with deep technical knowledge to ship high-performance trading and market-facing services. Colleague-known as a pragmatic problem-solver, he’s equally comfortable optimizing microsecond-level paths as mentoring teams and shaping product architecture. Outside work he brings a geeky, playful curiosity—evident from his GitHub persona—which speaks to a culture-minded leader who still enjoys low-level coding challenges.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Carre's Grammar SchoolMMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (44)
rust10
text-editor9
rust-lang9
wix-extension9
crate9
code-editor9
compiler9
rust-language8
garbage-collection8
allocator8
go8
rust-api8
12-factor8
aws8
toml8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rottedfrog/importomatic
Sep 2019 - Aug 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
rottedfrog/TextReplace
Aug 2016 - May 2021
WiX Extension to enable regex find and replace in text files during installation
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 9 months
regexwix-extension
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