Rob Day
Principal Engineer at Lindus Health
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Day is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-scale, high-reliability products on Linux and Kubernetes, currently shaping Lindus Health’s technical direction. He excels at diving into complex domains like telecoms, leading cross-functional teams, and turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems. At Microsoft he led a container-native Rust telecom platform and drove challenging integrations for Azure Communications Gateway while evangelising practical AI uses in engineering workflows. He pairs hands-on problem solving—debugging memory leaks, designing autoscaling and Kubernetes operators—with mentoring and product collaboration, and has run customer-facing trials and training across multiple regions. Trained in analytical thinking with a First Class degree from Oxford in Ancient & Modern History, he brings uncommon domain curiosity and communication skills to deeply technical problems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) First Class, Ancient & Modern History, BA (Hons) First Class, Ancient & Modern History at University of OxfordPrinceton University
Github Skills (124)
swagger10
proxy10
microsoft-azure10
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openapi10
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rest10
azure10
database10
router10
microsoft10
sip10
homestead10
provisioning9
tornado9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Metaswitch/clearwater-live-test
Jun 2013 - Apr 2017
Scripted testing of a Clearwater deployment
Contributions:217 commits, 38 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 10 months
deploymenttestingscriptedclearwater
Metaswitch/clearwater-perf-utils
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 122 commits, 54 PRs in 9 months
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