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Daniel Whitfield
Software Engineer · Professional. Real template render, same system you get after upload.
Daniel Whitfield
Software Engineer: Payments & platform infrastructure
London, United Kingdom
About
Backend engineer with nine years building payment and platform systems for regulated businesses. I care about correctness, observability and systems that stay boring under load.
Experience
Staff Engineer
Ledgerworks · London · 2021 to Present
Technical lead for the payments platform processing settlement for enterprise clients across the UK and EU.
- Rebuilt the settlement pipeline, cutting reconciliation time from hours to minutes
- Introduced service-level objectives and on-call practice across four teams
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- AWS
Senior Backend Engineer
Harbour Financial · Manchester · 2017 to 2021
Built core banking integrations and internal tooling for a lending product serving small businesses.
- Led the migration from a monolith to service boundaries owned by small teams
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
Projects
Tallyd
A small open-source double-entry ledger library, written to make financial correctness testable.
- Go
- SQLite
Education
BSc · Computer Science
University of Bristol
2013 to 2016
Skills
Engineering
- Distributed systems
- Payments
- Observability
- API design
Tools
- Go
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Terraform
- AWS