Paul Smith
Software Engineering Team Lead at Freemarket
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Smith is a hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead based in London with over a decade of recent engineering experience and a total career spanning back to the 1990s, blending deep .NET and cloud expertise with systems architecture and operational ownership. He has repeatedly stepped into technical leadership and de facto CTO roles, shipping resilient financial and payments systems—from core banking and global money movement platforms to Kafka-backed loan pipelines and smart-card payment infrastructure. Paul combines line management and mentoring with day-to-day coding and devops, having led cross-functional squads and stewarded production services at firms like Freemarket, Zopa, and Asterisk Networks. Comfortable across Microsoft stacks, Azure, SQL Server and distributed event-driven architectures, he is also experienced with CMS platforms and developer advocacy from earlier roles. A self-taught technologist, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach and a track record of turning complex data flows into maintainable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
English, Swedish
Github Skills (11)
episerver10
web-optimization10
feature-toggle8
azure6
microsoft5
microsoft-azure3
transactionscope1
abstraction1
dapper1
extension-methods1
testability1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smithsson68/CacheExample
Apr 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
smithsson68/LoanCalculator.Java
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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