Lewis Clark
Backend Software Engineer
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London, Greater LondonMember since September 18, 2023
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A friendly and sociable software engineer with expertise in back-end development. Proven ability to independently learn, quickly upskill, and work with a wide range of technologies. Skilled team collaboration, backed by over 2 years of professional experience.
Experience
Software Engineer Intern (07/2022 - Present)
Cisco Systems
- Collaborated as a back‐end developer within the Automations team, building internal tools for business-critical Cisco Collaboration infrastructure, utilising Python, Golang, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
- Managed complex service deployments using Kubernetes.
- Successfully rewrote and migrated 10 legacy tools to a micro-service architecture. Reducing line count by an average of 40% while improving overall readability and operational efficiency.
- Played a pivotal role in the development of 3 new tools by designing and implementing the API.
- Co‐led and served as the primary back‐end developer for a project designed to facilitate hybrid work in response to current industry trends. Managed a user base of 1000.
- Created an open-source package for processing event streams from Webex using WebSocket’s. For environments with restrictive firewalls.
Software Engineer Intern (05/2021 - 07/2022)
Carbonara- Back‐end developer within a dynamic start‐up, leveraging TypeScript, Google Cloud Functions, and Firestore.
- Successfully transitioned both front‐end and back‐end systems to a cloud logging system using logz.io.
- Developed insightful Kibana dashboards to provide comprehensive statistics on product usage.
- Progressed from a summer intern to work part‐time during 2nd year at university.
Education
Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
Loughborough University – Bachelor’s Degree with Foundation Year
- Foundation year: 84% (received scholarship)
- 1st year: 84%
- 2nd year: 80%
