Engineering
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Building a Real-Time Analytics Pipeline at Scale
How we designed a system to process 50M events/day with sub-200ms query latency using ClickHouse and Kafka.
ArchitectureClickHouseKafka
29 Mar 2026Read article
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London, United Kingdom
George
Software Engineer — Building scalable systems
I'm a full-stack software engineer with 6+ years of experience building high-performance web applications, distributed systems, and developer tooling. I thrive at the intersection of engineering excellence and exceptional user experience.
6+
Years Experience
40+
Projects Shipped
2.4k
GitHub Stars
180+
Open Source PRs
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The Engineer Behind the Work
I started writing code at 14 — a PHP forum on a shared hosting plan. That first taste of building something from nothing became a lifelong obsession. Today, I architect systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions and serve millions of users.
After 6 years across startups and top-tier tech companies (Stripe, Vercel), I've developed a rare combination: the depth of a systems engineer and the taste of a product designer. I don't just ship features — I ship experiences.
When I'm not pushing commits, I'm writing about engineering on my blog, contributing to open source, or mentoring the next generation of engineers. I believe the best code is code that other humans can understand.
Currently at
Unemployed
Based in
London, United Kingdom
Specializing in
Full Stack Developer
Education
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Clean Code Advocate
Obsessed with readability, maintainability, and elegant abstractions that stand the test of time.
Systems Thinker
I design for scale from day one — distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and performance at the edge.
Full-Stack Depth
From database query optimization to pixel-perfect UI animations — I own the entire stack.
Technical Writer
I document what I build and share what I learn. Engineering is a team sport.
Open Source Contributor
4k+ GitHub stars across personal projects. I believe in giving back to the community that built me.
Startup Mindset
I move fast without breaking things. Pragmatic about trade-offs, relentless about quality.
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Projects That Ship
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Tools of the Trade
TypeScript
5y96%
Python
6y88%
Rust
2y72%
Go
3y75%
SQL
6y90%
Solidity
2y68%
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React97%
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Git97%
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TypeScript96%
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REST API Design96%
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Tailwind CSS95%
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Node.js95%
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Where I've Worked
Software Engineer - UI & UX developer
Self Employed
Part-Time
January 2026 - Present
London, UK
Independent full stack consultant specializing in high performance web applications and cloud native UI/UX. Partnering with startups and enterprise clients to architect scalable frontends and optimize backend systems for cost efficiency and user engagement.
- ▸Designed and built a real time fintech payment dashboard using React and WebSockets.
- ▸Refactored backend query logic in PostgreSQL, reducing API response latency by 40%.
- ▸Developed a reusable UI component library that accelerated client delivery cycles by 2x.
- ▸Implemented serverless architectures on GCP, reducing client infrastructure overhead by 25%.
- ▸Created high fidelity Figma prototypes to align technical specs with stakeholder vision.
- ▸Optimized frontend Core Web Vitals, achieving 95+ Lighthouse scores for e-commerce clients.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLFigmaNext.jsGCPTailwind CSSVercelSupabase
Software Engineer
Google
Full-time
March 2023 - December 2025
London, UK
Software Engineer in the Google Cloud organization. Responsible for designing and maintaining high throughput distributed systems and internal APIs that power GCP’s global infrastructure. Specialized in building resilient, multi tenant backend services and optimizing cloud native application performance for enterprise scale workloads.
- ▸Developed high-concurrency Node.js microservices handling 50k+ QPS with sub-100ms latency.
- ▸Optimized PostgreSQL schema and replication, reducing global storage costs by 18%.
- ▸Migrated legacy services to Kubernetes, improving cluster resource efficiency by 25%.
- ▸Reduced Mean Time to Recovery by 30% through automated SLO/SLI alerting systems.
- ▸Authored technical design docs for GCP API versioning to ensure zero-downtime migrations.
- ▸Built internal CLI tools that reduced sandbox environment provisioning time by 70%.
- ▸Led root cause analysis for distributed system failures and implemented permanent architectural fixes.
TypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesDockerTerraformPub/SubgRPCSpannerPrometheus
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