Connor Leigh-Smith

Building an Intelligent Automation platform, enabling organizations and workers to easily delegate routine and complex tasks to AI while maintaining control over how they happen.

Stack: Python, React, AWS, LLMs

Delivering and constantly improving an infrastructure platform + tooling to enable other engineering teams to easily run their workloads at scale and focus on application development.

• Provisioning & maintenance of dozens of production Kubernetes clusters running across dozens of AWS accounts and multiple regions
• Providing easy self-serve Terraform tooling for developers to consume regardless of TF/DevOps experience
• Providing support to engineers of all levels with provisioning and managing their infrastructure using our tooling
• Designing and planning work across many initiatives to further security, stability & scalability while balancing flexibility/autonomy of our engineering teams with consistency across our infra
• Communication with leads from many teams to understand requirements and coordinate releases/improvements
• Carrying out system design interviews & onboarding newjoiners

Stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Python & bash scripting

Worked as a full-stack engineer and subsequently Tech Lead for Kids Web Services, a platform of tools and APIs with the aim of enabling engineers globally to create safe digital products & experiences for children.

• Worked with stakeholders and PMs to define technical direction and carry out product vision
• Implemented features and delivered requirements using a microservice architecture
• Designed systems within strict limitations due to guidelines and regulations around children’s data privacy
• Architected and optimised our systems to work at scale and handle several large launches involving being in the critical path of global applications used by millions of children
• Interviewed and trained new team members

Stack: JavaScript/TypeScript (NodeJS), AngularJS/Angular, Express/NestJS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka

As principal engineer, built a website creator for non-technical users, which eventually went on sale in physical boxes in high street stores across the UK.

• Set up and maintained the infrastructure
• Wrote the first version of the entire system; led hiring & oversaw development of further iterations of the system

Stack: PHP, MySQL, AngularJS, Nginx, Linux