Stuart Pearce

Overview

I work on real-time systems at Revolut in London. Wrote the Go service that now handles 55 million requests a day. Before that: Standard Chartered and BP. Most at home with Go and Elixir.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Nov 2025 - Present
   Revolut · 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Led or co-led 31 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 5 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
2. Engineering Manager

   Dec 2023 - Nov 2025
   Standard Chartered · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Led the migration of 20 services to Erlang/OTP.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2020 - Dec 2023
   BP · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Shipped 14 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
4. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
   Stripe · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 37 a week to 4.
   • Shipped 21 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
   NatWest · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Grew the real-time team from 6 to 29 engineers.
   • Moved 70% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Durham University

   BA, Computer Engineering
   2005 - 2008