Summary
Giles Bradshaw is a seasoned full-stack Software Developer with 13+ years’ commercial experience, specialising in modernising industrial control and SCADA systems by blending .NET, C# and full-stack JavaScript architectures. He co-founded SiGyl Limited to support and evolve a mission-critical control system for a large lubrication oil blending plant, regularly pairing on-site operational support with long-term software design and delivery. Recent work includes extracting business logic into Node.js microservices, streaming MSSQL changes to Apache Kafka, OPC UA integration and live browser updates via SignalR and GraphQL subscriptions. Comfortable across PLC programming, SQL Server and MongoDB, Docker and Azure, he brings deep practical knowledge across automotive, pharmaceutical, oil & gas and food & beverage sectors. A polymath developer, he also explores functional languages (Clojure, Haskell) and reactive patterns (RxJS/.NET), which informs elegant, resilient system design. Based in North Devon, he combines hands-on coding with operational instincts honed from decades of on-site system stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Hons Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Hons Philosophy at University of York
St Albans School