# Scott Alexander Williams

> Software Engineer at Starling

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/scottalexanderwilliams

Professional software developer located in London, United Kingdom.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Engine by Starling
Jan 2024 – Present | Shoreditch, London, England, United Kingdom

### Back End Engineer @ FullCircl
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom
▪ Worked as part of the platform and data team with ownership over data-exposing applications and data pipelines, both new and legacy, written in Kotlin, JavaScript, PHP, and Python on top of a Google Cloud-based architecture utilising Kubernetes and Pub/Sub.
▪ Created and maintained a Kotlin application utilising the Vertx framework to resolve GraphQL types forming a connection to a PostgresQL database.
▪ Created and maintained Kotlin applications utilising the Spring framework to expose APIs connected to third party data providers.
▪ Designed software system to batch requests to GraphQL service utilising PubSub queueing and Kubernetes Jobs to maintain system reliability and uptime under intense load.
▪ Created, exposed, and managed APIs using Apigee.
▪ Maintained API management portal written in React.
▪ Wrote data pipelines with PySpark to expose data sources on global companies.
▪ Implemented a feature flag tool into a legacy PHP application and presented its advantages/disadvantages to the company.
▪ Participated in system design and requirements processes, writing detailed interface specifications and
communicating cross-team to deliver new API projects.
▪ Mentored less technical members of the team.

### Java Consultant @ FD Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | City of London, England, United Kingdom
Created an internal tool for employee CV creation and management with a tech stack of a VueJS frontend, ExpressJS backend, with AWS DynamoDB.

### Analyst @ Reemaq
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Provided key black-box quality assurance, providing feedback on styling, metrics, and security, to overseas development team to allow for a successful product launch. 

Migrated website to use Amazon Web Services and localised content for an Australian and New Zealander audience.

### React Developer @ AutoGrab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Worked within a small team to develop an innovative automobile pricing React web app to a successful and disruptive product launch.

### Java Developer @ EValue
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Newbury, England, United Kingdom
• Worked as part of an agile team responsible for the development, maintenance and implementation of web applications, both frontend and backend, using Java, Javascript, and SQL.
• Collaborated with web designers, business analysts, and actuarial testers to develop and deploy high quality, robust solutions on schedule.
• Developed a reusable video player web component to play personalised financial .svg experiences.
• Developed a Spring API to update and retrieve configuration files and parameters.
• Developed, implemented, and tested modern reusable web components to calculate client financial needs in legacy tools.

### Research Intern @ University of Southampton
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Southampton, England, United Kingdom
• Built an IoT wireless sensor network using ESP8266 microcontrollers to monitor carbon dioxide levels.
• Improved an IoT Raspberry Pi based air quality monitor.
• Researched extensively the academic literature surrounding indoor  quality.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Southampton

### Diploma in Leadership and Management
Lonsdale Institute

### A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics, IT, History
Kenilworth Castle Sixth Form


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-alexander-williams
- Website: https://www.swilliams.io/
- Website: https://www.swilliams.io/atom.xml

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Last updated: 2026-04-05