Stuart Leneghan
Head Of Software Engineering at Optellum
New Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Leneghan is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience and a 20-year background in building production software across finance, gaming, media and healthcare. Currently Head of Software Engineering at Optellum, he combines technical direction with product delivery to bring lung cancer care tools into hospitals worldwide. He has a strong track record of modernising Scala-based systems, designing distributed low-latency services, and driving AWS-first architectures at organisations like ITV, Playfish and DeepMind. As a former managing director of a consultancy and an Oxford postgraduate in software engineering, he blends strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering craft and team coaching. Notably, Stuart has repeatedly moved projects from greenfield design to high-scale production, contributing practical tooling and performance improvements that reduced costs and operational friction.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Hons 2:1 Computing, Bsc Hons 2:1 Computing at The Open UniversityPostgraduate Diploma Software Engineering, Postgraduate Diploma Software Engineering at University of Oxford
Github Skills (5)
messaging7
scala6
amqp6
amqp-client5
mqtt3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
leneghan/scala_dojo
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 18 days
leneghan/maybe
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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