Miles Burton
Senior Software Engineer at Barclays Investment Bank
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMiles Burton is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years’ experience delivering full-stack systems across finance and media, currently driving engineering work at Barclays after leading platform and trading improvements at MarketAxess and HSBC. He specializes in Scala and React, advocates test-driven development and pair-programming, and blends hands-on coding with technical leadership roles including Scrum Master and Lead Engineer. Miles has a track record modernizing complex, high-throughput trading UIs (including an Electron-based platform upgrade across 20+ environments) and automating regulatory and deployment processes to cut manual overhead. He contributes to embedded/IoT open source—improving an Arduino temperature sensor library—reflecting a practical curiosity that spans from low-level device fixes to large distributed systems. Comfortable shifting focus across domains, he emphasizes pragmatic craftsmanship: shipping quality software rapidly without sacrificing maintainability. Based in the UK, he pairs deep banking domain experience with a personal interest in DevOps and energy-conscious engineering.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Computer Science, Software Engineering Computer Science at Sheffield Hallam UniversityBTEC Nationals for IT Practitioners Software Engineering, BTEC Nationals for IT Practitioners Software Engineering at Northampton College
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Github Skills (18)
onewire10
sys10
embedded10
arduino10
c-language9
arduino-library9
sensor9
cprogramming-language9
iot8
jenkins6
android-listview6
android-viewpager6
highcharts6
jenkins-plugin6
android6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
milesburton/Arduino-Temperature-Control-Library
May 2012 - Jan 2023
Arduino library for interfacing with Maxim temperature sensors
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 7 reviews, 102 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Miles primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Arduino temperature control library. Their work addressed issues related to the `writeScratchPad` function, ensuring correct device addressing and EEPROM write operations. They also implemented a fix for more accurate lower temperature measurements, and made code formatting improvements. These changes focused on improving the library's reliability and functionality.
arduino-libraryarduinods18b20embedded-systemsesp8266
milesburton/arduino-frequency-shift-keying-rtty
Jul 2016 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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