Stuart Forbes
Senior Software Engineer at TransFICC
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Forbes is a Senior Software Engineer with 14–15 years of commercial experience designing and delivering feature-rich, business-critical applications across finance and gaming sectors. He has progressed through senior and principal engineering roles at Sky Betting & Gaming and The Stars Group and now contributes to TransFICC, demonstrating a strong track record in high‑impact, deadline-driven environments. Known for being disciplined and supportive, he balances hands‑on coding with mentoring and system-level thinking to ship reliable production services. A 1st Class Computing graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University, he pairs solid academic foundations with long-term Java and backend expertise, often stepping into technical leadership when complex delivery challenges arise.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing, 1st Class Hons, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing, 1st Class Hons at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (3)
testing2
bdd1
scenarios1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stuforbes/kapacity-core
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Load test framework designed to monitor the performance of a system when a volume of data is passed through it
Contributions:20 PRs, 141 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
load-testmonitortest-frameworkvolumeperformance
stuforbes/qmk_firmware
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 months
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