Damien Ruscoe
Quantative Technical Director
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Ruscoe is a detail-oriented Quantitative Technical Director with over 20 years of systems-level engineering experience and nine years in senior roles, specialising in Linux, C++ and Python for high-performance, low-latency applications. He modernises critical trading infrastructure—rewriting web UIs into native, coroutine-driven C++20 desktop tools—to eliminate threading issues and deliver scalable market-data visualisations used across multi-market trading desks. His background spans embedded systems, compilers, and commercial debuggers through to safety-critical test tooling, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency that lets him quickly become a subdomain expert and mentor teams. An active contributor to open-source projects such as the Jellyfin Kodi plugin, he focuses on performance, maintainability and responsiveness when synchronising complex data flows. Based in the Greater Bristol Area, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with pragmatic architecture choices to turn intricate requirements into reliable, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics with Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics with Software Engineering at The University of ManchesterEccles College
English
Github Skills (11)
python10
multithreading10
database-optimization9
json9
debugging8
data-synchronization7
playback7
synchronize7
synchronization7
synchronized7
data-sync7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Jellyfin Plugin for Kodi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 9 PRs, 16 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on optimizing the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi, specifically improving its performance and maintainability. Their work included refactoring code related to database interactions, optimizing debug logging, and parallelizing HTTP requests. The user also addressed potential issues with thread management and implemented improvements for UI responsiveness during library synchronization. These changes collectively enhance the plugin's efficiency and user experience.
jellyfinkodiplaybackvideossync
druscoe/jellyfin-kodi
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Jellyfin Plugin for Kodi
Contributions:11 pushes, 12 branches in 7 days
kodijellyfin-pluginjellyfin
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