Iain Bullard
Principal Software Engineer at Gousto
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIain Bullard is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with 15 years of hands-on experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams. He combines deep backend expertise in Python/Django and AWS with a pragmatic, product-centric approach—working closely with product owners to ensure the right solutions are delivered. At Gousto and previously Conversocial he progressed from hands-on development to technical leadership, mentoring engineers while driving architectural and delivery improvements. He contributes to open-source tooling for AWS emulation (notably improving SQS/SNS behavior in the widely used moto library), reflecting a commitment to reliable cloud integrations and testability. Known for translating complex constraints into practical systems, he brings uncommon operational grounding from earlier roles in operations and capacity planning.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computing Software Development Artificial Intelligence Database Design & Implementation, Bsc Computing Software Development Artificial Intelligence Database Design & Implementation at Sheffield Hallam University
Github Skills (10)
aws-sqs-fifo10
unit-testing10
boto10
aws10
python10
amazon-sqs10
message-queue10
amazon-sns10
testing10
json9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Iain primarily contributed to improving the functionality and compatibility of the `moto` library, focusing on AWS SQS and SNS implementations. Their work involved enhancing SQS queue attribute handling, fixing validation issues, and implementing message filtering for SNS subscriptions. They also added validation for SQS receive message parameters and enforced message length limits for SNS publishing. These changes directly improve the accuracy and reliability of the library's AWS service emulations.
awsbotoec2s3
iainb/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Feb 2025
dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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