Summary
Declan Soper is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building APIs, in-house tools, and data-driven systems, currently focused at Ceta Insurance Ltd. He brings a polyglot background from early-career roles and university studies, working across C#/.NET, .NET Core, Python 3 and Go while deploying solutions with MySQL, Linux, AWS, Docker and MVC patterns. Having started in industry before formal higher education, he combines practical production experience with a First-class HND in Computer Science from Coventry University. At Ceta he progressed from junior to senior engineering responsibilities, contributing to both greenfield features and legacy maintenance. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to data manipulation and database updates, and his curiosity about tooling often leads him to build internal utilities that streamline workflows. Based in West Oxfordshire, he blends enterprise-minded reliability with a tinkerer’s instinct for efficient engineering.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Computer Science, 1st, Higher National Diploma, Computer Science, 1st at Coventry University