Rowland O'Connor
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRowland O'connor is the CEO and founder of Email Hippo and a hands-on engineer by trade, bringing 10 years of formal experience to build high-throughput data services. His teams' technology has processed over 3.5 trillion email addresses and removed 935 million invalid addresses, earning Email Hippo the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2020. He specializes in designing resilient, cloud-native, distributed systems and high-performance .NET architectures for large-scale batch and real-time validation. From early work in power systems and retail anti-fraud to pioneering the first self-service bulk email validation, he pairs deep systems engineering with an entrepreneur's eye for practical, scalable products — and claims he’s been tinkering since age five.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
email-parsing10
buster10
thunderbird7
email-address5
microsoft-extensions-configuration5
microsoft-extensions4
api3
docker-image3
serilog3
validation3
dotnet2
unbound2
powerdns2
docker2
dyndns2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emailhippo/email-verify-api-docs
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
apivalidationemailaddressapi-documentation
wesbos/burner-email-providers
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
A list of temporary email providers
Contributions:148 reviews, 384 commits, 371 PRs in 7 years
emailprovidersbusteremail-parsingtemporary-email
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