Gavin Draper
Engineering Manager at Benefex
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Draper is an experienced engineering manager based in Brighton with 14 years in software delivery and over 20 years in the tech industry, now leading teams at Benefex after a recent tenure at ClearBank. He specialises in designing and running scalable Azure-based systems for financial services, with deep domain knowledge in Interest and Transactions and a strong track record of delivering compliant projects on time and budget. Gavin blends hands-on technical experience across .NET, SQL and DevOps with people leadership—coaching teams to make data-driven decisions and become high performing. His background spans startups to scale-ups and investment management firms, giving him a pragmatic approach to balancing speed, reliability and regulation. Known for enabling cross-functional collaboration, he often bridges engineering, operations and product to reduce operational risk while increasing delivery throughput. An underrated strength is his long history of building domain-specific backend systems (from airline revenue to investment back-office), which informs his architectural choices in regulated environments.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Studies, Business Studies, Computer Studies, Business Studies at Portslade Community Collage
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17,241reputation
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Github Skills (87)
tsql10
sql10
garmin10
typescript10
sp-blitz10
sql-server10
performance-tuning10
stored-procedures10
health10
blitz10
azure-sql-database9
entity9
azure-data-studio9
azure9
fitbit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gavdraper/GavinScripts
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
gavdraper/RunPace
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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