Rufus Hamade
Senior Software Engineer And Backend Architect at Guerilla Software
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRufus Hamade is a Senior Software Engineer and Backend Architect based in London with a 25+ year career spanning full-stack development, system architecture, and founding-engineer responsibilities. He brings 17 years of documented industry experience across startups and established firms, currently shaping backend strategy at Insurevision.ai while retaining long-term senior engineering duties at Guerilla Software. Rufus has led engineering and solutions architecture efforts at businesses from fintech (WiseAlpha) to gaming (Rockstar) and hardware IP (Imagination Technologies), translating complex domain requirements into robust, scalable systems. His academic background is unusually deep for an engineer—he holds a PhD in General Relativity from the University of Cambridge—informing a rigorous, analytical approach to software design and problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices, mentoring, and delivering production-grade APIs and services under constrained timelines. Despite a low-key public footprint (his GitHub cheekily notes an unexpected blog), he combines research-calibre thinking with hands-on implementation across the stack.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, A levels at Oswestry CollegeBSc Physics, BSc Physics at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy - PhD General Relativity, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD General Relativity at University of CambridgeLlanfyllin High School
Github Skills (24)
nodejs8
javascript7
sql7
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
postgresql6
mysql6
database5
microsoft-sql-server5
databases5
mariadb5
oracle4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RufusHamade/conversationai-moderator-1
May 2018 - Apr 2021
A machine-assisted human-moderation toolkit.
Contributions:8 PRs, 336 pushes, 273 branches in 3 years
assistedmoderation
conversationai/conversationai-moderator
May 2018 - Apr 2021
A machine-assisted human-moderation toolkit.
Contributions:2 reviews, 752 commits, 180 PRs in 3 years
assistedmoderation
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