Stephen Allred

Full-stack Software Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom

About

Full–stack principal engineer with over 13 years of experience working on high performance real-time software within the fintech sector. I am focused on ensuring code quality and delivering high calibre software with automated test coverage. Most recently lead a team that delivered a greenfield realtime trading application. This was written in TypeScript and React Native, with C# services on the backend. Experienced in C# and .NET on the backend, and TypeScript, React, and React Native on the front end.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Vitesse PSP Limited
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Axi (Full-time · 3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineer
      Nov 2022 - May 2023 · 7 mos

      Technical lead across all of Axi’s UK software feature teams. Responsible for ensuring technical excellence and consistent processes across teams. Tasked with establishing the technical feasibility of business requests and book of work planning for each quarter. Responsible for liaising with the dedicated architectural team to ensure that shared components fulfil feature teams’ needs, and identifying and conveying new shared needs from the feature teams to the architecture team. Had regular catchups with the COO to report on the progression of projects and any blockers.

    • Lead Developer
      Oct 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Technical lead on a new proprietary mobile trading application built in React Native, with app-specific C# services deployed in Azure AKS via Terraform and Flux. Tasked with building a new development team (c. 6 developers), defining technical processes, and ensuring code quality, best practices, and software quality. The application was successfully launched in just under a year. Ongoing feature improvements have been delivered at pace since, averaging a new release ≤ every 3 weeks. Additionally leveraged back-end skills to provide active development support to other teams, allowing them to meet business critical deadlines on their projects, while ensuring uninterrupted development of the proprietary trading application.

    • Senior Software Developer
      Nov 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr

  • Star Financial Systems (10 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Software Developer
      Jan 2013 - Nov 2019 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    • Software Developer
      Sep 2009 - Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Full stack developer working on real-time trading platforms