Summary
Rachael Tordoff is a contract Python engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable microservices, ETL pipelines, and user-focused frontends primarily using Python, Flask, FastAPI and SQLAlchemy. She co-founded and led development of OptiBroker, a complex mortgage-broker platform spanning 100 microservices with SQS, S3, Kubernetes, Docker and integrated third-party APIs, and has built consumer-facing side projects like the UK Property Report. At HM Land Registry she delivered deadline-driven digital transformation work—authoring robust ETL/ELT flows, automating batch pipelines with Jenkins, and applying geospatial tools like Shapely and GeoJSON to real-world datasets. Comfortable across DevOps and CI/CD (Jenkins, Terraform, OpenShift, Kubernetes), she pairs hands-on engineering with UX and accessibility experience to produce usable, compliant interfaces. Known for mentoring junior engineers, she brings both entrepreneurial initiative and public-sector delivery discipline from her base in Exeter.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computing, Bachelor's degree Computing at University of Plymouth