Duncan Edwards
Senior Software Engineer at Vanguard
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Edwards is a senior software engineer and hands-on technical leader with over two decades of experience building high-throughput, enterprise-grade systems across finance, media and e-commerce. He excels at full‑stack delivery and architecture—leading teams, designing resilient backends and crafting responsive UIs—while personally owning critical fixes and features that move the business. His background spans C#, .NET, WPF, cloud services and modern web stacks, with proven experience processing millions of daily financial transactions and operating high‑traffic consumer sites. Duncan has repeatedly stepped into lead roles—from startup co‑founder to engineering lead and principal engineer—combining technical coaching with pragmatic delivery. Based in Bristol, he brings a disciplined engineering culture, strong mentorship, and a track record of rebuilding or refactoring core systems to improve reliability and performance. An atypical detail: he has both built consumer-facing WooCommerce infrastructure that handled 1M+ monthly pageviews and architected low-latency trading systems processing 15M+ transactions per day.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Distinction Average, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Distinction Average at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (10)
realtime-api10
api-documentation10
realtime10
api10
gtmetrix7
react5
rails5
dotnet2
csharp1
performance-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DuncanEdwards/bootcamp-2.0
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:87 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
DuncanEdwards/duncan-learning
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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