Sunil Nikhil Mahmood

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Engineering Manager at Prism Analytics · Real-time systems · Elixir, Erlang/OTP

Prism Analytics
Birmingham, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
11+ years experience
University of Glasgow
English
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Overview

Currently at Prism Analytics, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 7. Grew the real-time team from 4 to 16 engineers. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 40 a week to 1. Before that: AIB and Revolut. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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  • Requests to fix your code for free
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
Elixirlow-latency systemsRedisWebSocketsErlang/OTPGo

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Prism Analytics · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 25 a week to 2.
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
    AIB · 2 yr · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 11 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Software Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
    Revolut · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 16 a week to 2.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 300ms to 67ms.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
    BT Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 4.
  5. Software Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
    Rolls-Royce · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 28% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 22 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.

Projects

Write-up: real-time systems in practice
2022

A long-form guide to real-time systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Glasgow
    MA, Computer Science
    2014 - 2016
  2. London School of Economics
    BSc, Computer Science
    2011 - 2014

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