Summary
Neil Houghton is a lead software engineer with two decades of experience designing and modernizing high-scale, mission-critical backend platforms across cloud, fintech, and media domains. He specializes in distributed systems and multi-region deployments, driving pragmatic improvements in durability, performance, and delivery speed while coordinating safe rollouts across complex cross-team dependencies. Comfortable shipping backend, frontend, and infrastructure changes, Neil is fluent in Java, Kotlin, C#, TypeScript, React and AWS CDK and has delivered real-time reconciliation tooling, streaming systems, and media integrations. His background ranges from startup MVPs to internal AWS developer tooling, reflecting an ability to move between greenfield builds and legacy modernization with equal effectiveness. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs hands-on engineering with leadership in large-scale modernization efforts that unlock new product capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Canterbury
English, Dutch