Anzel Lai
Principal Engineer at Independent
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnzel Lai is a pragmatic VP of Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native services across fintech, healthtech, and consumer platforms. Currently leading engineering at Kanda and co-founding GoCarer, he blends hands-on architecture and people leadership to deliver maintainable, secure systems while prioritising empowerment over micromanagement. His background spans senior platform architecture, solutions design, and founding roles where he migrated monoliths to microservices and drove product-market fit. A top 2% StackOverflow contributor, he quietly champions transparent communication and continuous learning, often favoring simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. Based in the UK, he pairs commercial pragmatism with a history of operational leadership dating back to logistics and warehouse management, giving him uncommon depth in scaling teams and processes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at Hong Kong Management AssociationsBusiness Management, Business Management at University of Leicester
English, Chinese, Chinese, hakka (chinese dialect), Japanese
Stackoverflow
20,235reputation
3.6mreached
386answers
2questions
dataframe
top-5%
scrapy
top-5%
selenium
top-5%
postgresql
top-5%
pandas
top-5%
jython
top-5%
Github Skills (123)
python10
ipython10
sse10
liveview10
jupyter-notebook10
sky10
nosql9
pandas9
elm9
django9
webscraping9
jython9
csv9
postgresql9
programming-language9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
anzellai/sky
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Sky — an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go. Hindley-Milner types, server-driven UI (Sky.Live), single binary output.
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 595 pushes in 4 months
elmgohindley-milnercompilerfullstack
anzellai/bluewand
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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