Andrew Lawson
Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Lawson is a Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo with 14 years of experience building resilient, large-scale banking systems and leading cross-team technical strategy. He has driven high-impact programmes—such as Monzo Stand-in for tolerating full cloud outages—and now leads efforts to improve how the organisation makes safe, high-velocity changes as Monzo scales. His background spans payments, finance infrastructure, ledgers and treasury systems, and he’s steered a 10-team collective on core banking and payments architecture. A hands-on engineer who still contributes to open source, he added DynamoDB support and refactored formatters in the widely used Monolog logging library, reflecting a focus on maintainability and operational robustness. Based in London, he combines deep backend expertise (Go, Kafka, Cassandra, cloud platforms) with strong technical leadership and programme-level delivery.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Architectural Technology, Architectural Technology at Northumbria UniversityA Level Maths Physics Product Design, A Level Maths Physics Product Design at King Edward VI High School
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Github Skills (18)
aws-dynamodb10
php10
dynamodb10
logging10
zend-framework9
psr-39
associative-array9
unit-testing8
json7
html6
namespaces6
shell6
firefox6
doctrine6
slash6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Seldaek/monolog
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Monolog library by implementing a scalar value formatter and adding an AWS DynamoDB handler. They also refactored the scalar formatter to extend the NormalizerFormatter, demonstrating a focus on code reuse and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the test bootstrap autoloader, ensuring the proper loading of dependencies for testing.
loggerphploggingsocketsdatabases
adlawson/vagrantfiles
May 2013 - Oct 2018
A Virtual Machine for every language
Contributions:76 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 6 months
rustevery-languagevirtual-machine
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