Richard Sommerville
Senior Software Engineer at Foodsteps
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Sommerville is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with six years of experience building reliable, security-minded systems across startups and large enterprises. He has delivered security and systems work at Cloudflare—authoring managed WAF rules and contributing to detection engineering—and now applies that operational rigor to product-focused engineering at Foodsteps. His background includes CERT investigations at BT and a secondment to the National Cyber Security Centre, giving him practical incident response and threat analysis experience few product engineers possess. Comfortable across backend systems and security tooling, he prefers teams that build useful technology for positive impact and explicitly avoids cryptocurrency projects. A Computer Science graduate from Loughborough, he blends hands-on engineering with a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes and risk-aware design.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Loughborough University
Github Skills (18)
markdown10
cloudflare10
cloudflare-workers10
mdx10
firewall-rules6
eve6
wireshark5
ssa5
mls5
tla5
network-tools4
gleam4
rust3
netfilter3
firewall3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
rsommervilleCF/cloudflare-docs
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Cloudflare’s developer docs.
Contributions:7 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
cloudflarecloudflare-workers
cloudflare/matched-data-cli
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 reviews in 4 months
securitymatchedfirewallinteract
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