Tony Baines
Kotlin Engineer at Lendable
Greater Ipswich Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Baines is a seasoned Kotlin and Java engineer with over 25 years' experience delivering mission-critical systems for a global telecommunications firm and, more recently, fintech lenders. He specialises in Agile/XP practices, technical architecture and team leadership, blending OO and functional programming across Kotlin, Java, Groovy and Scala while adopting containerisation and Linux-based tooling. At BT he led major refactors, platform ownership and delivery improvements for large-scale services, and now applies that pragmatic, quality-first mindset to backend work at Lendable. Comfortable coaching teams and driving engineering standards, he pairs deep legacy-system experience with modern cloud-native practices like Docker, Kafka and Ansible. Based in the Greater Ipswich area, he brings a rare combination of hands-on coding, architecture savvy and long-term operational stewardship that speeds time-to-market without sacrificing reliability.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
M Eng, Digital Communication Systems, M Eng, Digital Communication Systems at Loughborough UniversityB Eng (Hons), Electronic Engineering, B Eng (Hons), Electronic Engineering at University of Reading
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Github Skills (86)
java10
logger10
logback9
sql9
golang9
api9
high-performance9
intellij-idea9
python9
proxy9
accelerator9
maven-plugin9
log4j9
jenkins-plugin9
gradle-plugin9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tonybaines/gestalt
Feb 2014 - Aug 2019
Contributions:31 releases, 348 commits, 119 pushes in 5 years 6 months
tonybaines/GildedRose
Mar 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 years 8 months
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