Summary
Robert Dupplaw is a Senior Software Developer with eight years' experience building and maintaining enterprise Java systems and microservices, currently driving delivery at Heywood. He champions pragmatic engineering practices—TDD, pair programming, clean code and CI/CD—and has a track record of translating business needs into incremental, stakeholder-aligned software. Comfortable across the stack, he has designed OpenAPI-driven REST APIs, deployed Docker workloads to Kubernetes, and led knowledge-sharing initiatives like internal talks and a technical book club. His background in customer-facing IT support gives him strong empathy and composure under pressure, informing how he prioritises reliability and user impact. A self-directed learner who prefers books and hands-on experimentation, he seeks technically challenging roles where his craft and collaborative instincts deliver measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Makers
BSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at University of Warwick