Summary
Lewis Maitland is a Software Development Manager at Amazon with 11 years of experience delivering software across embedded, mobile, and high-availability server environments. He progressed from student engineer to director and now manager, blending hands-on coding with people leadership to ship products used by SMEs and multinational customers. His background includes contract and in-house roles in payments, retail, and media, giving him a practical appreciation for security, reliability, and integration challenges. Comfortable in both low- and high-level languages, he drives pragmatic engineering decisions that balance performance and maintainability. Based in Longriggend, Scotland, he holds a Distinction master's in Computer Software Engineering from Heriot-Watt and maintains an active GitHub profile demonstrating continued technical curiosity. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who transforms complex requirements into dependable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Braes High School
English