Ross Mcfarlane Email & Phone Number

I onboarded and led a team of 8 senior security engineers. As we were somewhat outnumbered by the broader engineering team, I drove the introduction of a SecDevOps strategy to improve our relationships with colleagues, and ultimately our impact.As an individual contributor, I coached our internal tooling team as they evaluated options and planned.

I led the build, launch, and production operation of three payment products in the European market. These include one real-time and two batch systems, handling payments for banks with over 1 million customers.

I contributed to the build of a real-time payments system, and built the initial implementation of our Confirmation of Payee product. I also contributed to the design of a new cross-currency product.

I developed and maintained back-end microservices in Go, and occasionally Node. I was involved in designing and developing some large features on the product roadmap, including our internationalisation infrastructure. I also worked to improve the testability of services, and vastly improved test run times to tighten engineers’ feedback cycles.

Pembroke Dock

I had responsibility for technical direction, and a pastoral role looking after our technical leads and over 25 developers across all disciplines. I represented the technical side of the company with clients, and the group board.I worked to adapt our infrastructure and processes as we faced increasing scale of customer traffic and feature development. I.

I led a team building One iota's core product, the MESH e-commerce platform. I balanced the needs of a growing number of internal and third-party API users as we expanded functionality and improved performance. I set up a new office in Wales, and hired engineers into the growing team.

Phd, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Postgraduate Research Representative for The Faculty of Science

Msc, Computer Science, Distinction

Ba (Hons), Sound Technology, 1St Class