Robin Edwards
Chief Technology Officer at Bidnamic
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Edwards is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Sheffield with 16 years of experience architecting and scaling production systems across startups and growth-stage companies. Rising through engineering and architecture roles at Bidnamic to lead technology strategy, he pairs hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with product-focused leadership. His open-source contributions to Apache Airflow highlight practical skill improving reliability and UI/CLI functionality in a widely used workflow platform. Academically grounded with a Distinction MSc in Advanced Software Engineering and a first-class degree in real-time systems, he brings a strong foundation in systems thinking and performance optimization. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances deep technical ownership with mentoring and operational discipline.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Advance Software Engineering (MSc), Distinction, Advance Software Engineering (MSc), Distinction at Kings College LondonComputing for Real-Time Systems, Computing, First class, Computing for Real-Time Systems, Computing, First class at University of the West of England
Github Skills (19)
data-pipelines10
python10
data-engineering10
workflow-engine10
airflow10
orchestration10
orchestra10
data-pipeline10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
automation9
rest-api9
automations9
cicd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 37 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to improving the Apache Airflow platform by implementing bug fixes, enhancing existing features, and optimizing the user interface. Their work includes addressing issues in the tree view layout, adding functionality to clear and backfill commands, and filtering data returned by various endpoints. The contributions demonstrate expertise in modifying both the Python backend (CLI and views) and the HTML/JavaScript frontend components. Furthermore, the user made several changes that impact the overall reliability and performance of the platform.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
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