Dávid Lantos
Lead Backend Engineer at Cleo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDávid Lantos is a Lead Backend Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building reliable, team-friendly systems across finance, government, and startups. He blends hands-on backend expertise (Ruby, Kotlin, Java, PostgreSQL) with architectural coaching—helping teams adopt CI, reduce manual processes, and align around clear domain language and measurable hypotheses. His background includes improving payments and automation at Easol, shaping probation digital services at HMPPS, and driving platform and data documentation at Funding Circle and the Legal Aid Agency. A pragmatic founder and collaborator, he focuses on removing ambiguity and enabling engineers to ship with confidence. Outside work he’s a father, husband and self-described “code gardener” who values coffee and flexible ways of working.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Business Informatics, Business Informatics at Corvinus University, Budapest, HungaryMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
Hungarian, English
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Github Skills (137)
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architecture10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/hmpps-interventions-docs
Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
Decisions and other shared documentation that spans across all applications in Interventions
Contributions:21 reviews, 65 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years 6 months
spansdecisionsinterventionsall-applications
sldblog/rabbitmq-graph
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Generate graphs from RabbitMQ topology via management API.
Contributions:136 commits, 52 PRs, 113 pushes in 5 years 8 months
apitopologygraphsapi-managementgraph
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