Summary
Iain Shepherd is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience building backend systems and data engineering solutions for finance and SaaS. He’s proficient in Java, C# and Azure, and has a track record of designing and operating core microservices end-to-end, including on-call production support and sysadmin responsibilities. His career includes modernising critical banking platforms—helping decommission a mainframe at Goldman Sachs—and delivering cost-saving, high-performance systems across firms like Morgan Stanley, RBS and Quest Software. Currently driving backend work at FLIP, he combines deep financial domain experience with pragmatic engineering for scalable cloud-native services. A detail that often goes unseen: he’s routinely been the bridge between development, operations and business stakeholders, mentoring distributed teams while owning full service lifecycles.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer and Management Sciences, BSc, Computer and Management Sciences at University of Warwick