Iain Rauch

I was brought up in Harrow, Greater London and went to Loughborough University. I am currently living in West London and have a full-time job.

In 2004 I set up my own company selling laser pointers. It grew into other areas throughout the years, but slow sales brought it to a natural close.

I'm particularly interested in the Internet and new technology, as well as being a self-confessed geek and Apple fanboy. For more about my interests, you can read my blog.

I am currently a Principal Software Engineer at Farfetch and have a strong record of producing high quality, scalable engineering solutions for both front and back-end. For example, when I was at King, I built a DSP from scratch (within a team). I have a proven ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and lead development.

I graduated from Loughborough University with a 2:1 in Computer Science (BSc).

From all my jobs I have experience with from-end and back-end development. My speciality is Java and I'm also strong in web technologies, databases (including NoSQL) and cloud technologies.

Some thoughts and opinions, but mostly a collection of hard to find tech-tips for reference.

Buying an AV Receiver in 2018

Posted March 25, 2018. Read article...

PHP PDO: How to solve “Cannot execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active”

Posted December 3, 2016. Read article...

Update on FreeBSD Postfix SASL SMTP Authentication

Posted October 2, 2016. Read article...

My qualifications and work experience. Prospective employers should contact me for my full CV.

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Details and descriptions of some of my development work.

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Dashboard widgets for Mac OS X I have written for personal use and made publicly available.

Click here to view my widgets.