Lee Blundell is a senior software engineer with 10 years’ experience building resilient, high-performance payment and API platforms for fintech and SaaS customers. He combines a product-focused mindset with pragmatic engineering practices—lean deployments, outside-in testing, and low-maintenance tests—to deliver reliable systems that scale. At Crezco he improved critical endpoint latencies by up to 3x, led a zero-downtime messaging migration and uncovered an OSS bug that saved hundreds of thousands of compute hours. He’s equally comfortable across the stack, shipping .NET cloud services, messaging, and observability (custom OTel activities) while routinely tuning SQL and resource usage to cut costs. A former tech lead and consultant, he mentors engineers, shapes architecture, and translates complex domains into decoupled, testable sub-systems. Based in Broxtowe, UK, he blends hands-on delivery with a penchant for measurable performance and reliability gains that retain customers.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), International Business, Master of Science (MSc), International Business at University of Nottingham
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University
A-Levels: IT, Business Studies & Media Studies, A-Levels: IT, Business Studies & Media Studies at Arthur Mellows Village College
Contributions:49 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 months
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