Lexi Robinson

I am a multi-disciplinary engineer with over 12 years of experience in a variety of environments, languages and paradigms. I am quick to adapt to new situations and enjoy learning how things work and showing others. In my experience the best way to learn the intricacies of a system is to teach someone else, so I often help new starters get set up and mentor more junior programmers as they challenge my inherent assumptions.

Programming skills

• Extensive backend development in both monoliths and microservices using Python/Django, Rust, NodeJS and Go
• Long term frontend experience in Javascript and Typescript, working without frameworks, in React and recently Vue
• Additional knowledge of big data processing with PySpark, API hardening techniques and devops with Terraform
• Past experience with low level programming in networking, embedded processors and multithreading/concurrency

Employment History

• Lantum (2022 - 2024): Senior Engineer – Acted as the senior engineering resource on a team founded specially for cleaning up and fixing the extensive technical debt left by a fast growing startup, heading up many initiatives such as:

  • Upgrading both python and library versions through many breaking changes to ones still in support
  • Applying and enforcing a standard linting and formatting config across all microservices
  • Major rewrite of a custom GraphQL server to allow its modernisation and expansion
  • Standardising API request authentication, raising baseline security across the company
  • Completely rewriting a custom Redis queuing solution to use as many standard components as possible and address a large number of reliability issues that had been causing incidents and downtime
  • Migrating CI/CD from harness.io to Github Actions, saving money and adding many new features
  • Unifying the 30+ custom Docker files used to a single standard one with significantly faster build times

• Lyst (2017-2022) Senior Engineer – Initially looking after backend services, I was quickly promoted to senior and loaned out to other teams to provide knowledge and support, helping with a variety of full stack projects including:

  • Designing and building a greenfield project for tracking brand performance across the platform
  • Helping migrate the website away from a home grown web framework to React & Typescript
  • Migrating a variety of data processing services to a unified data lake using AWS Glue
  • Architecting and building a highly reliable financial data pipeline to create a single unified reporting platform
• Smarkets (2015 - 2017): Engineer – Extensive refactor of a legacy web system, formed a 5 person team that built a new mobile-first site using React & Typescript
• Playgen (2012 - 2015): Technical Director – Rapidly promoted as the company grew, overseeing 6 developers and managing 10 successful large projects in a mix of EU research programs and commercial contracts

Education

• Queen Mary, University of London (2012) BEng Hons, Computer Engineering
  Hybrid degree of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering disciplines focusing on creating working products

Personal Projects & Interests

I have always been interested in games and have built many of my own, from making a virtual tabletop RPG to play with friends during lockdown to helping set up and run a megagame to writing a large number of video game mods.

I try to put as many of my projects – both game and conventional – on my GitHub profile which includes things such as a parser for the MeterBus binary protocol, my yearly solutions to the Advent of Code challenge, a BASIC interpreter I wrote using a phone and a physical printout of the ECMA-55 spec, a Garry's Mod mod with nearly half a million subscribers and an attempted remake of the game Wolfenstein 3D using OpenGL 3.

I also am a member of various makerspaces around London such as the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers (SM-EE) where I run the AV for their monthly zoom presentations broadcast to engineers worldwide. Previously I was a regular member at The London Hackspace where I previously helped build a spaceship simulator into an abandoned caravan

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