Andrew
Lees
Full stack TypeScript engineer with a lean toward backend and cloud infrastructure. Building systems that are reliable, maintainable and built to last.
About
I changed industries in 2016 to follow a genuine love of software engineering and it's been the best decision I've made. Before that I spent seven years on safety-critical control systems for live oil and gas platforms — which shapes how I think about reliability, fault tolerance and getting things right under pressure.
I work well in complex or legacy codebases, operate autonomously, and tend to be most effective when given a hard problem and space to solve it. Currently contracting outside IR35.
Skills
Experience
Pod Point
Led delivery of a headless e-commerce platform on NestJS and Remix. Designed and managed AWS infrastructure end-to-end with Terraform. Architected event-driven systems at scale and led zero-downtime infrastructure migrations.
Moto Hospitality
Built and maintained customer-facing web applications across a high-traffic hospitality platform.
ABB / CSE Controls
Designed and commissioned safety-critical control systems for live oil and gas platforms. Software where failure had direct consequences for real people.