Lewis Boon
Principal Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Boon is a Principal Platform Engineer based in London with nearly a decade building developer-focused platforms in the finance sector. He has progressed from technology analyst and test engineer roles to lead platform teams at Instinet and Nomura, now driving platform strategy at NatWest Markets. Lewis specializes in SDLC tooling, monitoring and containerisation, thriving in highly regulated environments where reliability and auditability matter. He’s known for identifying practical technology gaps and selecting pragmatic solutions that reduce developer toil. Outside the obvious, his career shows a steady focus on bridging development and infrastructure teams—turning operational pain points into repeatable platform capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computing, Bachelor's Degree Computing at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (42)
busybox10
github-issues10
rewrite10
docker-image10
linux10
cross-platform10
inspector10
coreutils10
command-line-tool10
rust10
gnu10
gnu-coreutils10
nim-language10
tui9
github9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lewisboon/bookmarks
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 release, 158 commits, 196 pushes in 2 years 6 months
lewisboon/doclink-checker
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Small executable that checks that links are still active, highlighting 404s
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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