Craig Russell
Senior Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Russell is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years' experience designing, planning and delivering large-scale, customer-focused web services across finance, retail and SaaS. He combines hands-on development in Node.js, TypeScript and Python with architectural leadership—driving monolith-to-microservices migrations, API platforms and federated authentication integrations (Active Directory, Okta, OneLogin). As a former Head of Technology/Platform he’s led cross-functional teams, scoped client solutions, adopted AWS hosting and delivered measurable cost and reliability improvements. Recently self-employed, he has built payment and lending services for major UK brands and worked on ESG and supply-chain finance products. Known for translating complex business requirements into practical, auditable solutions, he pairs strong communication and people skills with an MSc in Intelligent Systems. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he moves easily between strategic technical direction and shipping production APIs himself.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Intelligent Systems, Distinction, MSc, Intelligent Systems, Distinction at De Montfort UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Leicester
Github Skills (106)
php-curl10
javascript10
nest10
server-side10
nodejs10
nestjs10
sequelize-cli10
http-request9
database9
scalable9
guzzle9
javascript-framework9
http-client9
microservices9
cordova9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
craig552uk/solarized-gedit
Apr 2011 - Jan 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 2 years 9 months
colourgnome-shell-extensiongnomesolarizedgedit
craig552uk/api-boilerplate
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:66 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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