Andrew Poole
Senior Backend Engineer at Flagstone
Street, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Poole is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed, microservice-based systems across government and private sectors. He specializes in C#, .NET Core, WebAPI, event sourcing and technologies like EventStoreDB, Consul and Elasticsearch, having led a real-time rewrite for the UK Hydrographic Office that cut data publication from days to hours. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, he excels at architecture, design and persuading stakeholders to adopt modern patterns. He co-founded Coach Candor while continuing senior engineering work, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and interest in team culture and mentorship. His background spans legacy system modernization, novel workflow-based business rule engines and practical operational responsibilities including 24/7 support. Based in the UK, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach and a taste for creative technical problem solving that surfaces in long-running production projects.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, BTEC National Diploma Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Strode CollegeBSc (Hons) Music Systems Engineering, BSc (Hons) Music Systems Engineering at University of the West of Englandcertificate Bass guitar and Biblical studies, certificate Bass guitar and Biblical studies at Nexus Christian Music College
Github Skills (15)
method-chaining10
extension-methods9
json-element9
vscode-extension7
vscode7
csharp7
asynchronous7
visual-studio-code-extension7
mermaid4
markdown3
blazor3
sql2
nuget1
vulnerabilities1
dotnet1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andrewjpoole/elasticband
Jan 2020 - Jul 2024
A simple wrapper around the plain Elasticsearch http rest api, i.e. the one the the kibana dev tools uses.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 6 months
andrewjpoole/andrewjpoole.github.io
Jul 2019 - Dec 2025
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:130 pushes in 6 years 6 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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