Matthew Mcfarlane is a software engineer based in Edinburgh who builds high-traffic Java microservices and production systems at FanDuel, leveraging Spring, Guice, Kubernetes and AWS (including Terraform-driven IaC and serverless patterns). With a background that spans an IMechE-accredited aerospace engineering degree and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with pragmatic backend software design. In four years he progressed from bootcamp graduate to senior backend engineer, shipping scalable services and contributing to CI/CD and cloud infrastructure improvements. His early career in customer-facing roles and running his own courier business gives him a practical focus on reliability, observability and user impact beyond code.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Msc Mechanical Engineering, Msc Mechanical Engineering at University of the West of Scotland
SCQF Level 6 Software Development, SCQF Level 6 Software Development at Glasgow Clyde College
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