Megan Walker

Software Engineering at University of Southampton '27 · Bazel

Stripe

Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

1+ years experience

University of Southampton

English

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Overview

MEng student who got hooked on mobile development in first year. Recently built a sign-language translation prototype. Interned at Stripe last summer. Comfortable with Go and Backstage. I teach a weekend class on observability.

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Skills

service meshBazelGoobservabilityKubernetesBackstageCI/CD

Experience

Software Engineering Intern
Aug 2025 - Nov 2025
Stripe · 3 mo · Internship · Edinburgh, UK
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 392ms to 153ms.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine

2023

Built with Kubernetes and Backstage. 1334 people used it last year.

Open-source observability toolkit

2023

A small library for platform engineering that 504 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

University of Southampton
MEng, Software Engineering
2025 - 2027

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