Summary
Rob Lascelles is a Staff Engineer with 12+ years building and operating high-throughput, resilient web platforms on AWS, currently shaping payments infrastructure at Checkout.com. He led the architecture and microservice transformation of Just Eat’s payments systems across nine countries, introducing event-driven patterns, circuit breaking and a new voucher system to handle thousands of orders per minute. Equally comfortable from front-end to storage and ops, he champions BDD, integration testing and Agile practices to reduce risk and improve delivery. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he has a track record of recruiting and scaling teams while driving data-informed product decisions around conversion and auth rates. Early experience building global multi-tenant e-learning infrastructure on AWS gives him deep operational instincts for scalable, cost-effective cloud architectures.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University