Giles Bradshaw

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Senior Engineering Manager at Dune Logistics | ex-Rightmove

Dune Logistics
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
14+ years experience
Imperial College London
English
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Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Dune Logistics, where I lead the developer platform team. Moved 90% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Rightmove and Kainos. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on platform engineering
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on service mesh
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
BazelBackstageservice meshCI/CDRESTobservabilityGo
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closes in 4 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: platform engineering and REST

Topics
platform engineering, CI/CD, Backstage
Format
Office hours
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

14 years of platform engineering. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

London, UK · remote OKgoobservabilityservice mesh
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Building out developer platform at Dune Logistics: security engineers wanted in London

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$173k-$226k
Team
Developer platform, 7 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Go Production experience with Backstage Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp £74k-£123k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Dune Logistics · 4 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 5.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 23 engineers.
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 78 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
    Rightmove · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Wrote the CI/CD service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 32 engineers.
  3. Senior Platform Engineer
    Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
    Kainos · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 546ms to 57ms.
    • Wrote the REST service that now handles 47 million requests a day.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
    Arm · 2 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 88% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
    Indeed · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 60% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 6.

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Education

  1. Imperial College London
    MEng, Mathematics
    2015 - 2017
  2. Trinity College Dublin
    BA, Mathematics
    2008 - 2011

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