Stephen Leigh
Tech Lead (contract) at Financial Conduct Authority
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Leigh is a tech lead with 11 years’ experience delivering resilient, low-latency systems and managing cross-functional engineering teams across regulated and high-demand domains. He’s led work from hands-on implementation to architectural design—scaling platforms from thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users and designing cost-effective, event-driven AWS architectures. Experienced across TypeScript/Node, Kotlin, Go, Kubernetes and serverless AWS, he pairs operational rigor with product-focused delivery and has driven upgrades and dependency strategies across estates. At Sky Betting & Gaming he built mission-critical pricing and game-data systems handling high request spikes, and more recently delivered enrichment and streaming solutions at DAZN and scaling/UX features at Jugo. Known for improving team practices—coaching, performance management and knowledge sharing—he blends testing and devops disciplines from his earlier QA-focused roles. Based in Leeds, he brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach that values measurable SLAs, cost-efficiency and developer enablement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Music, BA Music at University of SouthamptonMSc Management (Creative and Cultural Industries), MSc Management (Creative and Cultural Industries) at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (20)
gradle-plugin6
lambda5
artifacts5
kotlin5
trading4
workspace4
serverless4
serverless-framework3
faas3
artifact3
devops3
aws-lambda3
aws-dynamodb1
pnpm1
turborepo1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
s-leigh/lambda-transpiler
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
P87/fantasy-premier-league-team-analysis
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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