Russ Ferriday
Forward Deployed Engineer at Topia Systems Ltd
Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRuss Ferriday is a Forward Deployed Engineer and founder with 16+ years of hands-on experience delivering production software across the UK, Silicon Valley, Germany, Japan and Switzerland. He moves fluidly between Python, Rust and Go, emphasizing TDD, fast iteration and pragmatic tooling to ship stable systems—from AI agents and dataflow pipelines to video streaming and face recognition. Equally comfortable building cloud-native infra (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure) or running bare-metal deployments, he routinely optimizes for cost, sovereignty and CI/CD-driven delivery. As founder of Topia Systems and a recurring technical consultant for public sector, health and media organisations, he blends entrepreneurial ownership with consultancy-grade execution. Recent engagements include designing cost-efficient Kubernetes clusters, Wagtail/Django+Postgres on GCP and TypeScript frontends backed by Rust services. Based in Carmarthen, Wales, he offers a rare mix of global delivery experience and low-level systems sensibility dating back to embedded and realtime work in the 1980s–90s.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Equivalency Computer Science, Masters Equivalency Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBarry Comprehensive SchoolBSc (Hons) in Photographic Sciences Image processing numerical methods physics optics, BSc (Hons) in Photographic Sciences Image processing numerical methods physics optics at University of Westminster
English, German, French
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Github Skills (200)
proxy10
edgetpu10
onnx10
object-detection10
yolov410
python10
build-automation10
docker-compose10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
todomvc10
jetson10
machine-learning10
nginx10
reverse-proxy10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
szrnk/umfrage
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:100 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
topiaruss/yolov5
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > iOS
Contributions:41 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
pytorchdeep-learningobject-detectiononnxpytorch-onnx
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