Andrew Basterfield
Senior Systems Architect at Sinch
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Basterfield is a Senior Systems Architect based in Sheffield with two decades of telecom experience and a 12-year track record building high-capacity messaging platforms. At Sinch he drives architecture governance for A2P SMS and builds AI tooling to improve architectural decision-making, having previously led cross-cutting data pipeline and RCS messaging platform work. His career includes designing the routing for the UK's first Advanced Mobile Location deployment and delivering SMS voting systems for TV audiences in the millions, demonstrating operational pedigree at extreme scale. Comfortable moving between low-level C and high-level distributed systems, he has delivered resilient SS7/SIGTRAN SMSC platforms, scalable billing data lakes and automation-driven DevOps. Known for asking the right questions and reconciling local objectives with global architecture goals, he blends pragmatic engineering with strategic stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (59)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
andrewbasterfield/AlarmClock
Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 9 months
andrewbasterfield/zfs-incremental-backup
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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