Lead / Senior Software Engineer · London
Lead engineer for backends and products, ten years in.
Ten years building backends and products across finance, property, health and gambling. I lead greenfield builds, clear out legacy tech debt and ship systems that scale.
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(Featured) · Backend lead · 2025
I led the backend for Final One Standing: serverless C# on AWS Lambda, event-driven through SNS and SQS, on CockroachDB.
Own product · pre-launch
Contract · NHS England · 2025
Own product
Dec 2025 — Present
Built an AI conversational assistant on AWS Bedrock for 200+ team members, cutting onboarding time and internal support requests across Slack and Jira.
Crypto gambling platform. Cut average API latency from 14s to 2s with Lambda warm-up pings and provisioned concurrency (94% hit rate); 50% faster Snowflake and MySQL queries. Rebuilt a five-year-old Angular frontend into a modern UI based on Cloudflare's designs, with standardised patterns and strict frontend principles. Wrote 250 pages of in-app documentation covering customer-ops triage, how-to guides and permissions and access. Refactored TypeScript for algorithmic efficiency, added Redis batch pipelines and rebuilt data tables with keyset pagination, making tables with billions of records retrievable. Built a regression-test automation app that runs UI tests with Playwright, traces Bitbucket PRs to create test cases, and integrates with Claude through an MCP server I built. Now building a new React and .NET app with DDD, CQRS over Kafka and gRPC between services.
C# / .NET / TypeScript / Angular / React / AWS Bedrock / AWS Lambda / Snowflake / Redis / Kafka / gRPC
arenaentertainment.comApr 2025 — Jul 2025
Built a multiplayer game for a leading sports betting company with a £500k jackpot, scaled to 1 million users.
Designed the high-performance C# backend on AWS Lambda, with CockroachDB through Dapper and event-driven messaging over SNS and SQS. CI/CD with API Gateway, Lambda and CloudFormation.
C# / AWS Lambda / CockroachDB / Dapper / SNS/SQS / CloudFormation
betmate.appDec 2024 — Feb 2025
Automated bulk creation and deletion of templates in a healthcare application used by GPs nationwide.
Delivered a desktop application that drives a third-party healthcare application with Selenium, removing a significant amount of manual work.
Python / Selenium / Tkinter / CSV
england.nhs.ukApr 2024 — Jul 2024
Built a property management product rolled out to EJAR, the Saudi department of rent.
A .NET 8 microservice API and Vue.js frontend for a KSA-based PropTech startup, improving EJAR's inventory assessment process.
.NET 8 / Vue.js / Microservices / REST APIs
Aug 2021 — Apr 2024
Technical lead on Project Tahiti, which saved the company millions in fines. Resolved 500+ production issues in 6 months, 80% faster than other engineers.
Credit facility platform. Built frontend and backend features, mentored juniors and stepped into Lead Developer duties. Worked on the debt sale implementation and presented to external clients.
C# / .NET 6 / React / MSSQL / Microservices
salaryfinance.comMay 2018 — Apr 2021
Monitored millions of daily Expedia and Booking.com transactions, reconciled against Ixaris and MasterCard data, and settled across 50+ bank accounts in 10 international entities.
e-Payments platform. Built desktop applications for accounts management, in multiple currencies.
C# / .NET / WinForms / WPF / MSSQL
wexinc.comMay 2016 — May 2018
Built MiFID II regulatory reporting APIs and a SOAP API for internal data retrieval.
Graduate scheme with FDM Group, contracted to the LME. Built features in C++, Java and C#, and scripted in Perl, PowerShell and Batch.
C# / .NET / C++ / Java / Perl
fdmgroup.com
Lead / Senior Software Engineer based in London. Self-taught developer with a Mathematics degree. I've worked across finance, property, health and gambling, from the London Metal Exchange to a game with 1 million users.
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