Andrew Lawson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

Staff Engineering is a Director level individual contributor role where I'm focussing on:💷 Payments & Banking Services LeadershipExtending my role in Banking Services Group, we expanded the group to 10 teams focussed on Payments and Finance systems, products, infrastructure and data. My role is to guide technical outcomes of the collective, working with.

London, England, GB

I've been fortunate to have worked in a few domains and roles at Monzo, including:🏦 Banking Services GroupIn early 2022 I moved to tech lead a new group of Finance and Payments engineering squads, focussed on building our core banking platform. My role involves, amongst other things, working on defining the technical direction and strategy for the group.

London, GB

Continuing again from my previous role in this company as the Head of Engineering, my role as CTO allowed me to focus more on planning current projects and the future of our company's technical landscape.Technologies included Scala (w/ Akka, Cats), Nodejs, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Docker, Hashicorp suite (Consul, Vault), Ansible, AWS.

London, GB

Continuing from my previous role in this company as a Senior Developer, my role as the Head of Engineering involved organising our engineering and QA teams, shaping and simplifying our working processes, and meeting with technical clients and suppliers.Technologies included Scala (w/ Akka, Cats), RabbitMQ, MySQL, Ansible, AWS and Android.

London, GB

This project involved building a complex product within several very tight deadlines to deliver a new train ticket retail system. It was built for some of the country’s largest train operators including Southern, Southeastern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express. The system was structured as a network of tens of microservices.As well as the complex server-side.

Kingston, Surrey, South West, GB

My role in Research and Development at Graze involved many different projects covering a large range of skills and technologies. I spent the first few months building and refining build tools, BDD tests, a database migration system and continuous integration. As a big advocate of open software, I helped the tech team contribute back to projects we used and.

San Francisco, CA, US

Taken on as a mid-level backend developer, my role had grown from being “The PHP Guy” to being a key member of the architecture team of the new, upcoming platform. Since working there, I had grown as a developer and an engineer; working in JavaScript and CoffeeScript alongside PHP on the backend.Technologies included PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Freelance work under my own company, specialising in application development and system setup. Running my own company, I was a client facing developer advocating the need for tested, stable applications.I learned a huge amount while working for myself, specifically in unit testing and separation of logic (besides all the administration work that comes with.

Architectural Technology

A Level, Maths, Physics, Product Design