Philip Windle
Senior Software Engineer at Aztec
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Windle is a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK with 20+ years of experience building high‑availability distributed systems, from ultra‑low latency C++ trading and real‑time sensor platforms to cloud‑native brokerage services. He has led teams and products — including heading software development at Marex Spectron and architecting their Neon Markets cloud trading platform — blending hands‑on engineering with strategic delivery across C#, .NET, Node, TypeScript, and AWS. His work emphasizes robustness and quality assurance, delivering microsecond‑class pre‑trade risk systems and resilient, token‑authenticated client infrastructures. At Aztec he has contributed backend bridge contracts that optimize gas and integrate precise maths libraries, showing an aptitude for efficiency in both financial and blockchain domains. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a departmental lead, he pairs deep systems thinking with pragmatic implementation and continuous refactoring. Colleagues describe him as adaptable, detail‑focused, and drawn to technically challenging, mission‑critical problems.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Maths - A, Physics - A, Biology - C., Maths - A, Physics - A, Biology - C. at The Purbeck SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng), Systems Engineering, 1st Class, Master of Engineering (MEng), Systems Engineering, 1st Class at Brunel University
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Github Skills (6)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
blockchain10
swap9
uniswap9
gas-optimization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AztecProtocol/aztec-connect-bridges
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 6 reviews, 125 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the Element bridge contracts within the Aztec Connect Bridges repository. Their work involved implementing core functionalities for interaction management, including converting assets, finalising interactions, and managing expiry checks. They also focused on code refactoring, including gas optimisations, and integration of external libraries like FullMath. The user's contributions aimed at enhancing the bridge's efficiency and reliability within the Element protocol.
AztecProtocol/aztec-packages
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:12 releases, 1300 reviews, 767 PRs in 2 years
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