Craig Ferguson
Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo Bank
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Ferguson is a Senior Staff Engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale, secure banking infrastructure at Monzo and earlier systems work at Tarides. He has led cross-squad initiatives to expand Monzo internationally and designed resilient backup and security platforms in GCP. A pragmatic back-end engineer, Craig contributes to prominent OCaml open-source projects like Dune and ocamlformat, improving developer UX, build caching, and AST-aware formatting—details that hint at a strong taste for correctness and maintainability. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring teams to ship reliable systems across production and open-source ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (16)
build-system10
dune10
documentation10
ocaml10
code-formatting10
abstract-syntax-tree10
functional-programming9
buildx8
build28
opam8
build-engine8
build-time8
recursion6
deadlock6
concurrency6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ocaml/dune
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
A composable build system for OCaml.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 22 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily contributed to the Dune build system by improving documentation, fixing spelling/grammar errors, and refactoring code related to example generation. They made enhancements to the command-line interface, specifically adding examples to manpages for commands such as `build`, `runtest`, and `exec`. The user also corrected code style issues and fixed issues related to build caching and implicit interface generation. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and maintainability of the Dune build system.
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ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Auto-formatter for OCaml code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 66 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily worked on improving the OCaml code formatting tool, `ocamlformat`. Their contributions focused on fixing formatting issues related to attributes, indexing operators, tuples, and object types within the OCaml Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). These changes included retaining attributes in various AST node types, adding space consistency, and adjusting parentheses usage for improved code presentation. They also addressed edge cases and edge cases to make the formatting more comprehensive.
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