Ian Agius
Senior Backend Engineer at Yieldstreet
Malta
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Agius is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Malta with over 10 years building high-availability systems across payments, banking, iGaming (casino and sportsbook), and affiliation platforms. He specializes in Java and Spring with strong functional Scala experience used to deliver event-driven microservices on Kubernetes and GKE, and has practical exposure to C#, PHP/WordPress and system patterns like eventual consistency. Ian brings hands-on expertise in Redis, RabbitMQ, RESTful architectures, and CI tooling (Maven, Git), and has contributed to the JaVers open-source project. His background combines enterprise banking and real-time betting domains with a research-rooted M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, reflecting an unusual blend of production-grade backend engineering and analytical curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Information and Communication Technology, B+, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Information and Communication Technology, B+ at L-Università ta' Malta / University of MaltaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, B, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, B at L-Università ta' Malta
English, Maltese, Italian, French
Github Skills (16)
java9
auditing9
querying8
read-write7
transaction6
database5
scala5
abstraction5
functional-programming4
api4
restful4
testing4
jdbc4
rest-api3
sql3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ianagius/javers
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 23 branches, 6 tags in 2 months
javaauditingdiff
ianagius/polyjdbc
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 12 days
read-writequeryingsqltransactiondatabase
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