Eilidh Watts

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Senior Backend Engineer at HSBC · API platforms

HSBC
Bristol, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
5+ years experience
University of Glasgow
English
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Overview

I've spent 5 years on API platforms - first at Booking.com, now at HSBC. Shipped 28 launches on the public API team without a rollback. Led the migration of 52 services to Redis. Previously at Booking.com. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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Skills
RedisOpenAPIPythonrate limitingDjangoPostgreSQLREST

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Present
    HSBC · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
    • Shipped 21 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Grew the public API team from 5 to 39 engineers.
    • Moved 94% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
    Booking.com · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 5.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 27% in two quarters.

Projects

API platforms benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing rate limiting and Django on real workloads.

Open-source Python toolkit
2023

A small library for API platforms that 743 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Glasgow
    MA, Mathematics
    2021 - 2023
  2. Trinity College Dublin
    BA, Mathematics
    2018 - 2021

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