Andrew Cairns
Staff Backend Engineer at TransferGo
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Cairns is a Staff Backend Engineer with 12 years' experience building resilient, service-oriented systems and guiding teams through Domain-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development practices. Currently at TransferGo after progressing from Lead Back-End Engineer, he has a track record of shaping backend architecture for fintech at scale. He combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—previously serving as VP of Engineering and Technical Lead—helping teams adopt CQRS and pragmatic DDD patterns. Based in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, he favors automated, test-first delivery and clear bounded contexts to reduce operational complexity. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product needs into auditable, maintainable services and to mentor engineers in rigorous architecture and testing discipline. His background in web design and interactive multimedia gives him a user-focused perspective when architecting backend systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons.) Web Design and Development, BSc (Hons.) Web Design and Development at Abertay UniversityBSc Interactive Multimedia Design, BSc Interactive Multimedia Design at University of Dundee
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Github Skills (61)
aws-lambda10
bref10
lambda10
faas9
filesystem9
sendy9
psr-119
http-header9
php9
remix9
oauth9
serverless9
thephpleague8
authentication8
oauth2-server8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
acairns/sergeant
Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
golangagnosticframeworkframework-agnosticbus
acairns/radiate
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:77 commits, 62 pushes, 3 tags in 4 months
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