Dominic Black
Backend Engineer at Ledgerz
Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDominic Black is a backend engineer and founder with 13 years building payments infrastructure, distributed ledger systems, and high-performance backend services. He has led engineering at Monzo (Staff Engineer, Money Collective lead), helped found Encore.dev as a founding engineer, and now runs Ledgerz while contributing to open-source projects like Encore to improve type-safe distributed systems in Go. Currently at Morse and serving on the Bank of England’s CBDC Technology Forum, he combines startup velocity with central-bank level thinking around digital currency and payments. Dominic’s hands-on background ranges from real-time trading systems and streaming at TIMETOTRADE to global web hosting and large-scale sites at FileFront, giving him a rare mix of low-latency, resilient system design and practical product delivery. Notably, he refactored Encore’s Go code generator to support generics and service-to-service calls, highlighting a focus on developer ergonomics as much as production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at University of Sussex
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (9)
code-generation10
go10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
encoredev/encore
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Open Source Development Platform for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 598 reviews, 131 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dominic contributed to the configuration, API functionality, and internal tooling of the Encore platform. They modified core configuration structures and made changes to the internal go code generation. The user also refactored the code generator to support both type parameters and external service-to-service calls and enhanced support for both header and query string parameters.
gcpserverlessdevelopment-platformengineaws
DomBlack/dot-files
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.