Iain Rauch

I was brought up in Harrow, Greater London and went to Loughborough University. I am currently living in sout-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 as I pursued my professional career.

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 a seasoned Software/Data/Platform Engineer and Cloud Architect with a track record of producing high quality engineering solutions, detailed analysis and cloud architecture patterns. I have a proven ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and influence change across large organisations.

At Farfetch, I am the most senior individual contributor and decision maker for the Data Department of over 200 people (of which 150 ICs including engineers, data scientists, analysts, etc).

At King, I built a DSP from scratch (within a team) serving 250,000 requests/sec with single-digit latency.

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

Through my jobs, I have experience building Data Platforms and Products, front-end and back-end development, and Platform Engineering (DevOps / Cloud Architecture). My specialities include Cloud Infrastructure (GCP & Azure), BigData (BigQuery, Spark, Databricks), backend programming (Java, Spring, Gradle), and web technologies (JavaScript, React, Angular).

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

MySQL: How to solve “[MY-013360] mysql_native_password is deprecated”

Posted December 29, 2023. Read article...

How to delete old Time Machine backups on macOS Ventura

Posted November 4, 2023. Read article...

A quick look back at external NVMe on M1

Posted December 31, 2021. Read article...

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

Click here to view my CV.

Details of some of my non-work related development projects.

Click here to view my portfolio.