Vance Longwill
Senior Software Engineer at Undisclosed fintech
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVance Longwill is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with nine years’ experience building reliable, scalable microservices for fintech and payments companies. He is fluent in Rust and Go and enjoys tackling challenging systems problems, bringing practical attention to performance and robustness. His career spans startups and larger platforms including Paymentsense, Paddle and Deliveroo, where he focused on delivering production-grade services under real-world constraints. Currently at an undisclosed fintech, he combines hands-on engineering with a recent MSc in Advanced Cybersecurity from King’s College London, adding security-minded design to his toolkit. Outside work he balances engineering pragmatism with creative pursuits—playing piano, hands-on DIY (with the occasional injury), and family life with his son Artie—reflecting a curious, persistent problem-solver both on and off the clock.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Advanced Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Advanced Cybersecurity at King's College London
Spanish, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (51)
stream10
kafka-connect9
interactive9
ksqldb9
stream-processing8
flags8
sql8
kafka8
strings8
dynamodb7
database7
apache-kafka6
react6
kcat6
macros6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VanceLongwill/expunge
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 30 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 months
VanceLongwill/gotodos
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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