About Stuart
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English
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Experience
- Lendable via Build CircleSenior Software Engineer (Contract)April 2026 - July 2026 (3 months)London, UKDeveloped a new Pension application integrating with the Wealth Kernel platform via REST APIs and webhooks, exposing functionality through GraphQL for the Lendable mobile and web applications.• Built and maintained scalable backend services using Kotlin and http4k, with event-driven messaging to support asynchronous workflows and reliable integrations.• Technologies: Kotlin, http4k, GraphQL, REST APIs, Webhooks, Messaging.• Integrated AI-assisted development into the engineering workflow, using Claude to accelerate implementation and Augment to perform first-pass Pull Request reviews, improving development efficiency and code quality
- Engine by Starling via Build Circle,Senior Software Engineer (Contract)August 2025 - April 2026 (8 months)London, UKIntegrating user and group data from Entra and Okta into the Client Tenant environments by implementing a SCIM-compliant API. This reduces on-boarding and maintenance time for every user.• • Lead the initial design and implementation of the SCIM API.• • Java 21, Guice, JAX-RS, Gradle, Postgres.
- M&S via Crosstide (Formerly 101 Ways),Senior Software Engineer (Contract)March 2024 - June 2025 (1 year and 3 months)London, UKDeveloping micro-service applications for the Colleague Experience team.• • Built a high-priority integration service from requirements in Kotlin, with GitHub actions and Azure within 8 weeks through pair programming for transforming and publishing store and employee data from internal systems to a third party to meet a critical delivery deadline.• • Integrated Location data from Kafka into the publishing pipeline• • Led discovery to assess and plan the migration of a legacy on-premises system to Azure, identifying key dependencies, risks, and cloud-native opportunities.• • Individually built a Kotlin-based API in Azure within 8 weeks via pair programming, integrating with Active Directory to securely expose colleague information to mobile and web applications.• • Upgraded a Java identity testing library to latest M&S standards.• • Migrated New Relic Observability (Alert, SLO, Dashboards) to Dynatrace• • Java, Kotlin, OpenAPI, Kotest, JUnit, GitHub, Test Containers, Gatling, Docker, Micronaut, PostgreSQL, New Relic, Dynatrace, Kafka and Azure.
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Education
- Kotlin For Java Developers (Coursera)2018Kotlin For Java Developers (Coursera)
- London Markets Insurance LM12012London Markets Insurance LM1