Alistair Judson
Staff Software Engineer at Deliveroo
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Judson is a Staff Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with a decade of experience building and leading teams that deliver distributed systems for FinTech and hospitality tech. He specializes in microservices architecture using Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has progressed from junior backend roles to head of engineering and staff-level impact at Deliveroo. Comfortable operating at the intersection of hands-on coding and people leadership, he has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms during fast growth phases. He brings practical expertise in operationalising resilient services in production and a track record of shipping reliable, data-driven systems under tight timelines. Notably, his career path shows a pattern of stepping into leadership within product-focused companies while retaining deep technical ownership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
English
Github Skills (4)
token-generator7
struct3
rust1
golang1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
iZettle/tokengen
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
A small, simple, and flexible token generator for tokens, urls, and passwords.
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
token-generator
iZettle/setting
Feb 2017 - May 2018
A simple settings package
Contributions:3 releases, 60 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 3 months
configurationsettingssimple-settings
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