Paul Lancaster
Senior Software Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Lancaster is a Senior Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on development experience, currently building Kotlin microservices and AWS Lambdas at Sky Betting & Gaming. He blends modern cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm) with deep systems expertise from long-running work on safety-critical SCADA systems in C/C++ and Java. Comfortable across full-stack and dev-ops responsibilities, he diagnoses performance, memory, and concurrency issues using tools like gdb, valgrind, flame graphs and profilers. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the Boa JavaScript engine in Rust by implementing core Number semantics and parsing functions, showing attention to language-level detail and code maintainability. Based in Chesterfield, UK, he pairs a practical, problem-solving mindset with DIY instincts—whether shipping reliable production systems or fitting a conservatory at home.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, First Class with honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, First Class with honours at Sheffield Hallam University
Github Skills (7)
rust10
javascript-engine10
interpreter10
parse10
ecmascript10
parserator9
parser9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
boa-dev/boa
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 17 commits, 60 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the Boa Javascript engine, focusing on core functionality. Their work included implementing number constants, such as EPSILON and MAX_VALUE, within the `Number` object. They also implemented the `parseInt` and `parseFloat` functions, crucial for number parsing. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase by dividing the `run()` function, demonstrating a focus on code organization and maintainability.
javascript-engineboarustjavascriptruntime
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