Fergus Strangways-dixon
Software Engineering Lead at Schroders
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFergus Strangways-dixon is a Software Engineering Lead with nine years' experience building real-time, cloud-native systems across finance, e-commerce and hospitality. He designs and operates high-throughput data platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, BPIPE) and scalable services on AWS, GCP and DigitalOcean, with a strong Python focus and proven experience modernising legacy systems. As a hands-on leader he has led platform teams, set standards for serverless architectures, driven adoption of observability tooling like Datadog, and mentored product and quant teams to improve workflows. Notable projects include a sub-second Bloomberg market data ingest pipeline handling 50+GB/day and cost-saving returns systems at takealot.com. Now based in London, he is deepening expertise in AWS serverless patterns while also championing internal developer tooling and automation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who blends operational rigor with product-aware architecture choices.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours (Distinction), Computer Science, BSc Honours (Distinction), Computer Science at University of Cape TownIEB Matric, Maths Core, AP Maths, Physics, Economics, Geography, IEB Matric, Maths Core, AP Maths, Physics, Economics, Geography at Reddam House Constantia
Github Skills (104)
python10
terraform10
security10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
profiling10
simple-email-service10
flutter-plugin10
ml10
neural-network10
dart10
debugging10
data-science10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Validus-Risk-Management/aws-appconfig-pydantic
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
AWS AppConfig + Pydantic
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pythonpydanticconfigpython3aws
fergusdixon/aws-cdk
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:37 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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