Oliver Elder
Sr Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Elder is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-performance, domain-driven systems for payments and marketplaces. He has led technical teams through complex architecture changes—building event-driven ledgers, microservices, and scalable payment integrations—while mentoring peers and collaborating across product and infra. Comfortable across the stack from embedded C early in his career to Java, cloud services and streaming platforms, he’s consistently focused on making complexity usable, observable and fast. Remote-working since 2014 and based in Glasgow, he brings proven stability in distributed teams and a knack for rooting out downstream impacts when rolling out financial systems. Notably, his background spans both low-level firmware and large-scale transactional platforms, giving him a rare perspective on reliability and performance trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of DundeeBlairgowrie High School
Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RBC1B/ROMS
Jul 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:490 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
management-systemjavascriptregionalbuilding-committeecommittee
alfonsobonso/attendantsoffice
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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