Craig Astill
Staff Software Engineer at Confused.com
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Astill is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cardiff with 11 years of experience driving CI/CD, DevOps and data engineering improvements across fintech and enterprise products. He combines hands-on backend development (Python, Go, Django) with a track record of migrating monoliths to containerised microservices and formalising ETL pipelines using Airflow, ArgoCD, DBT and Redshift. A natural mentor and change broker, he’s led security and release guilds, coached junior engineers, and removed process inefficiencies to speed delivery. Notably, he champions contract-first development and code generation to tighten feedback loops, and has practical experience applying strangler-fig patterns for live migrations.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Reading
Github Skills (85)
web-application10
python10
spotify-api10
design-patterns10
system10
cx-freeze10
spotify10
scale10
webapp10
anki10
large-scale10
freeze10
cli9
music9
python-scripts9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jackson15j/dot_emacs
Aug 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:340 commits, 369 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
jackson15j/qmk_firmware
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:49 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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