Lucy Bennett

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Staff Backend Engineer at Jade Analytics · PostgreSQL, Java

Jade Analytics
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
10+ years experience
University of Edinburgh
English
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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Jade Analytics, where I work on the payments platform team. Moved 93% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: EY and Ocado. Most at home with Kafka and distributed systems.

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  • Second opinions on PostgreSQL decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on Java
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Skills
KafkaDjangodistributed systemsPostgreSQLgRPCGoJava

Experience

  1. Staff Backend Engineer
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Jade Analytics · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 12 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 22% in two quarters.
    • Took payment success rates from 93.8% to 97.2%.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
    EY · 2 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Led the migration of 42 services to distributed systems.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 15 a week to 2.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
    Ocado · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 90% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
    Redfern Health · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 28 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
    Accenture · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Took payment success rates from 92.8% to 96.9%.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2023

Built with Go and PostgreSQL. 4816 people used it last year.

Write-up: payments infrastructure in practice
2022

A long-form guide to payments infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Edinburgh
    MA, Computer Engineering
    2015 - 2017
  2. Queen's University Belfast
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2012 - 2015

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