Anthony Hayward
Senior Software Engineer at AST SpaceMobile
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnthony Hayward is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with two decades of experience delivering robust server, web and embedded systems across industries from telco-grade VoIP and satellite connectivity to medical devices and high-scale e-commerce. He combines deep systems thinking and formal training (PhD in Mathematics) with hands-on expertise in Rust, C#, C++, Java, Python and Erlang, often authoring prototypes to validate architectural directions. At Microsoft/Metaswitch he led integrations between VoIP networks and Azure OpenAI and engineered instantaneous media failover solutions, and he now writes flight‑software for AST SpaceMobile’s satellite connectivity stack. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor work and people/line management, he has repeatedly modernised legacy products and steered teams through complex renewals and observability improvements. His background across operator-scale networks, regulated medical products and cloud-native web systems gives him a rare ability to transfer domain-specific lessons into pragmatic, scalable designs. Based in Dundee, he prefers solving thorny technical problems early with prototypes that de-risk projects and accelerate team delivery.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Durham UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at King's College London
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Github Skills (115)
messaging10
chat10
android-client10
sketchup10
xmpp10
jabber10
fault10
packaging10
sarif9
dependency-management9
python9
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symmetric9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sarif-tools
Nov 2021 - May 2022
A set of Python command line tools for working with SARIF files produced by code analysis tools
Contributions:4 releases, 50 reviews, 5 commits in 5 months
sarifpythoncommand-line-toolsanalysis-toolscode-analysis
balgillo/MongooseIM
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
MongooseIM is a mobile messaging platform with focus on performance and scalability
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
messaging-platformperformancemessagingmongooseimmongodb
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