Andy Gout
Senior Software Engineer - Senior 2 at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Gout is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building resilient, data-driven features and platform tooling for the Financial Times. Certified in Elastic, Neo4j, and AWS, he specialises in architecting reliable ETL pipelines, content analytics, and automation that balance operational cost with robust health checks. At FT he led scoutAsia integrations, automated article selection processes, and moved intensive visual regression testing to S3, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on testability and scalability. He pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership—mentoring nearshore teams, running recruitment, and translating technical trade-offs for stakeholders across Editorial, Data, and Ops. Trained at Makers Academy and with a background in arts management, he brings strong communication and stakeholder empathy to complex product and data problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Drama & Theatre Studies, Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General, 2:1 BA (Hons), Drama & Theatre Studies, Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General, 2:1 BA (Hons) at Royal Holloway, University of LondonHigh School, A Levels: English (A); Drama (A); and Art (B) / GCSEs: 9 x A grades; 1 x B grade, High School, A Levels: English (A); Drama (A); and Art (B) / GCSEs: 9 x A grades; 1 x B grade at Moulsham High School
English, Japanese, bsl (british sign language)
Github Skills (200)
origami10
xapi10
expressjs10
python10
clientside10
autocomplete10
currency-converter10
listings10
documented10
api10
currency-exchange-rates10
graph10
pa11y10
counter10
nodejs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/n-handlebars
Aug 2016 - May 2020
❌ DEPRECATED Enhanced handlebars for use in next applications
Contributions:13 releases, 19 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 9 months
handlebars
andygout/cv
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
More about me
Contributions:31 PRs, 48 pushes, 38 branches in 7 years 4 months
pythonpython3
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