Craig Barnes

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Engineering Manager at Lloyds Banking Group | ex-Deliveroo

Lloyds Banking Group
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
6+ years experience
University College Dublin
English
Open to work
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Overview

6 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Lloyds Banking Group, where I lead the search team. Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 16 million requests a day.

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  • Roles in search and ranking
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Skills
ElasticsearchA/B testingPythonJava
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Senior Software Engineer roles in marketplaces - London or remote

Target roles
Senior Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Consumer apps, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UK
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Elasticsearch with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

6 years in search and ranking. Strongest at Python and Java. Serving notice now.

London, UK · remote OKa/b testingpythonelasticsearch
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2023 - Present
    Lloyds Banking Group · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 26 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 29 services to A/B testing.
  2. Software Engineer
    Feb 2022 - May 2023
    Deliveroo · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 72% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 20 launches on the search team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 37% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. University College Dublin
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2017 - 2020

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