machelinlondon

Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack Engineering | Backend & Platform Engineering | Distributed Systems | Type Script, Node.Js, React, Aws, Kafka, Open Search, Engagement, Identity, Search & Ai Assisted Delivery

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Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, data-intensive platforms across digital media, identity and consumer technology. Specialising in distributed systems, backend engineering, API design and cloud infrastructure using Node.js, TypeScript, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS and Kubernetes. Experienced in designing secure, highly available systems and delivering complex migrations and platform modernisation. Currently exploring opportunities to apply my engineering experience to Web3, blockchain and decentralised technologies.

Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $116,000

Hourly rate: $70

Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

NewsUk

2018 - 2023

Built a full stack AI recommendation prototype to improve content discovery across media platforms serving approximately 13 million active users. Partnered with Data Engineering teams to deliver AI-driven recommendation capabilities, contributing circa GBP9.3M revenue while supporting systems processing approximately 4.1B page views. Delivered frontend and content discovery improvements generating over 919,000 first-week clicks and increasing daily content recirculation by approximately 206,000 clicks. Improved SEO performance, Core Web Vitals and user experience through frontend optimisation, caching strategies and technical SEO, reducing average page load times by approximately 4 seconds. Collaborated with Product, QA and Data Engineering teams to deliver production-ready software through planning, testing, release and operational support.

Software Engineer

FSB Technology

2017 - 2018

Developed and maintained customer-facing software applications while contributing to backend services, frontend development and Agile feature delivery.

Skills

aws

ci-cd

computer-science

css

data-science

elasticsearch

graphql

mongo

nosql

postgres

solution

sql

terraform

full-stack

english

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