Summary
Deven Shah is a Lead Developer based in Milton Keynes with nine years of focused experience building high-performance, public-facing REST APIs and integration solutions using .NET Core and Azure. He brings a strong practical grounding in both SQL and NoSQL backends and a discipline for SOLID design, automated unit, acceptance, and integration testing across Web API and MVC projects. At the Education and Skills Funding Agency he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Lead Developer, demonstrating an ability to design systems that support eventual consistency and smooth module communication in complex public-sector environments. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has a track record of delivering clean, testable code in regulated domains. An understated strength is his consistent focus on integration strategy—using cloud messaging and patterns to make distributed systems resilient and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer