David Naylor
Freelance Software Developer at Bitform Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Naylor is a seasoned freelance software developer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient payment and event-driven systems for fintech and large-scale consumer platforms. He has led teams at Checkout.com and ClearBank to migrate critical production services—achieving zero-downtime database migrations and 10x throughput improvements—while owning architecture, CI/CD and infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Skilled in .NET, distributed messaging, DynamoDB/CosmosDB, Service Fabric, and performance-driven design, he blends hands-on development with operational rigor. David has a track record of shipping greenfield real-time systems and open-sourced tooling (e.g., internal integration framework DivertR) to improve testing and reliability across organisations. Based in London, he pairs academic training in computer science and embedded systems with an entrepreneurial background launching product and agency ventures. Notably, he combines deep low-latency optimisation experience with pragmatic migration strategies that minimise customer impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Embedded Systems and Robotics, Distinction, MSc, Embedded Systems and Robotics, Distinction at University of EssexUniversity of Pretoria
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Github Skills (26)
testing10
proxy10
mocking10
dependency-injection10
integration-testing10
unit-testing9
dotnet9
sdk8
aws-sdk8
csharp8
aws7
nest7
client-library7
strongly-typed6
redis6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
devodo/DivertR
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
The .NET mocking framework for integration testing.
Contributions:21 releases, 237 commits, 162 PRs in 1 year 11 months
dotnettestingmockingmocktesting-tools
devodo/appakin
Aug 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:314 commits, 1 push, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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