Selected professional experience
Customs duty services
Contributed to live-service engineering work in Edinburgh relating to customs duty for tobacco and alcohol.
This page describes individual professional experience, not a Hypnoshroom client engagement or an official HMRC account.
Role
Worked within a live-service environment as part of a wider team responsible for maintaining and evolving existing systems.
Engineering context
Regulated services have long-lived behaviour, operational constraints and integrations that need to remain understandable as the code changes.
Contribution
- Contributed to the maintenance and evolution of live Scala services.
- Worked through established engineering workflows for review, testing and delivery.
- Investigated and changed behaviour with attention to service reliability and existing system boundaries.
What this experience brings
The experience shapes a practical approach to mature systems: understand the current behaviour first, then make the smallest useful change that can be verified.
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