Summary
Kwabena Aning is a Senior Data Engineer based in London with 13 years of professional experience and over two decades of software development practice dating back to 1998. He blends hands-on engineering and technical leadership across data and distributed systems, having led teams and built data products at NatWest Boxed, Zego, Elsevier and American Express. A researcher pursuing a PhD in distributed and concurrent software design, he brings academic rigour to pragmatic system architecture with a special interest in the Actor Model. His toolbox spans Scala, Kotlin, Python, Spark and Kafka, and he has deep experience integrating services and improving near real-time messaging platforms. Beyond engineering, he has a track record of growing teams and improving development lifecycles, from CRM and automation platforms to large-scale data pipelines. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious about new technology and skilled at applying open standards to connect legacy and modern systems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Infromation Systems Research, Viva Pending, PhD, Computer Science, Infromation Systems Research, Viva Pending at Birkbeck, U. of London
BA, Sociology and Psychology, BA, Sociology and Psychology at University of Ghana
MSc, Information Systems Management, Merit, MSc, Information Systems Management, Merit at London South Bank University
SSCE, Humanities, SSCE, Humanities at Achimota School
French