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Building reliable, useful software.

I'm John — a full-stack software engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-traffic web platforms, payment systems, backend services, and production infrastructure.

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Solutions that meet needs
Infrastructure that performs
Data processing at scale

Experience

Engineering systems and software at scale.

A career spent close to the tough parts: payments, regulatory, scale, reliability, infrastructure, and production.
May 2026 — CurrentNEXT

C# Developer

Working on NEXT's high-traffic global e-commerce platform, supporting NEXT-owned properties and white-label retail clients.

E-commercePaymentsC#Azure
July 2025 — May 2026Freelance

Software Engineer

Providing development and architecture services for web, mobile, and API platforms, including astronomy, geocoding, weather, e-commerce, and payment systems.

Node.jsLaravelAPIsE-commerce
October 2017 — July 2025Sky Betting and Gaming / Flutter UKI

Software Engineer

Built and operated payments, authentication, and regulatory systems for high-traffic gaming platforms serving millions of users.

JavaPaymentsAWSIaCDevOpsRegulatory
March 2015 — October 2017Roy&Co / We Are Damage

Developer / System Administrator

Developed performant web applications and mobile web apps while architecting high-availability hosting, caching, monitoring, and backup systems.

LaravelInfrastructureDevOpsMobile

About

Full-stack engineering for systems that need to truly perform.

I'm a software engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering high-traffic web platforms, payment systems, and backend services. I've led work from technical design through delivery, mentored engineers, and worked directly with product and business stakeholders to solve difficult problems clearly.

My experience doesn't stop at software engineering. As part of my roles, I have developed a large amount of experience in DevOps practices including building servers and cloud solutions from the ground up using IaC such as Chef and Terraform, and designing the systems to meet varying traffic profiles.

Areas of focus

Payments

Tokenisation, PCI compliance, 3-D Secure

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Regulatory

SOX, PCI, FCA, Gambling Regulations

02

Scalability

High-traffic and high-availability systems

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Platform

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD

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From the blog

Engineering notes.

From my thoughts on the latest technology, to side projects and advice I've learned from my time as an engineer.

Why I Moved Most Of My Services To Kubernetes

Sometimes a server's all you need, but what happens when you need to patch that server?

Infrastructure as Code Doesn't Mean You Should Stop Understanding Infrastructure

Managing infrastructure through Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or another tool makes your life easier, but abstraction shouldn't replace understanding. When something goes wrong, you still need to know what your infrastructure is really doing.

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Let's discuss.

I'm always open to discussing opportunities, from full time jobs to one-off projects where my expertise might serve you.

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