Dafydd Rosser
Senior Engineering Manager at Rocket Science Group 🔜 Gamescom
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDafydd Rosser is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Cardiff with eight years of experience building high-performing teams and architecting event-driven, Kafka-centric microservices. He has progressed from hands-on development in Scala, Java and Go to strategic leadership roles at Currencycloud, Thirdfort and Road, where he introduced Team Topologies and modern ways of working to improve delivery and hiring. Dafydd combines deep technical chops in real-time, high-throughput systems with a strong focus on people development and system design, often leading greenfield projects that move money flows reliably at scale. He’s comfortable across the full stack and cloud tooling, and brings a practical, metrics-driven approach to organisational change that reduces bottlenecks while raising engineering quality. An avid advocate for event-driven architectures, he pairs operational expertise with a curious, games-development background that surfaces in pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (hons) Computer Games Development Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (hons) Computer Games Development Computer Science at University of South Wales
Github Skills (59)
quickfix9
fixprotocol9
session-store9
financial-markets8
web-application7
java7
trading-systems7
finance7
matching7
cryptocurrency7
fintech7
api7
gitlab6
quickfixj6
wrapper5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drosser/innovation-curious-coffee
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Helping to break down silos by matching people from different departments
Contributions:2 PRs, 121 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
breakmatchingdepartmentspython
drosser/pair_java
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Pair programming exercise for Java
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 months
pair-programmingjavapairprogramming-exercise
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