Summary
Grahame Gardiner is a Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and leading teams across fintech, cloud, and safety-critical domains, currently shaping compliance products at Griffin including the launch of Verify. Equally comfortable as a hands-on developer and a manager, he has shipped core banking and payments features, migrated ETL workloads to Kubernetes, and doubled extract job performance using asyncio. His background spans startups and large enterprises (Cisco, Limejump) and is anchored by a PhD in computational science, reflecting a strong analytical approach to engineering problems. Outside work he channels competitive drive into bouldering, Olympic lifting and former national-level futsal, a mix that informs his focus on team performance and continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, 2.1, Chemistry, 2.1 at University of Bath