Andrew Raines
Senior Solutions Architect at OVO
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Raines is a Senior Solutions Architect based in London with 13 years of experience designing and simplifying large-scale systems across media and energy sectors. He combines hands-on engineering in TypeScript, PHP, Symfony and MySQL with cloud-first architecture on AWS, and a pragmatic focus on performance tuning and cost optimisation. At News UK he led architecture strategy, drove a ~20% service footprint reduction, implemented DORA metrics and shift-left security practices, and steered incident responses to supply-chain and DDoS events. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and people leadership, he has run engineering-all-hands, RFC/ADR processes and technical training like MySQL workshops. Trained as an MEng electronic engineer, he brings systems thinking from hardware to cloud and a penchant for making complex estates simpler and more resilient.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Culcheth High SchoolMEng Electronic Engineering, MEng Electronic Engineering at University of York
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (188)
custom-component10
azure-functions10
serverless10
backend10
schema10
react-native-web10
bundle10
validation10
serverless-applications10
php-framework10
lambda10
json10
boto10
symfony-bundle10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
araines/food.araines.net
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Static serverless WordPress site for food/recipes
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
recipeswordpressserverlessfoodwordpress-site
newsuk/times-release-notifications
Aug 2018 - Feb 2024
Slack notifications when releases are deployed
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 7 months
notification-serviceslack-notificationsnotificationsslacknotification
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