Summary
Aaron Southwell is a seasoned Senior Engineer and engineering leader with over two decades of Java experience and a decade in SAS development, currently serving as VP/Senior Engineer at Deutsche Bank in London. He has a strong track record driving payments, banking, and public-sector projects from hands-on architecture to delivery, having led teams at Tide, RBS, Credit Suisse, and major consultancies. A committed Agile practitioner and advocate of TDD and pairing, he focuses on maintainable, extensible systems that balance rapid business responsiveness with high quality. His background includes building large-scale ETL and analytics solutions, enterprise e‑commerce platforms, and a production Single Intelligence Platform used by hundreds of users, reflecting both technical breadth and delivery discipline. Based in Chalfont St Giles, he combines pragmatic leadership with a habit of applying curious, cross-domain problem solving—oddly informed by a niche training in traditional Japanese physiotherapy techniques.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physiotherapy based on traditional techniques from Japanese Ninjitsu., Physiotherapy based on traditional techniques from Japanese Ninjitsu. at Amatsu Training
University College London