Oliver Godby
Senior Back End Developer at The Social Gaming Group
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Godby is a seasoned Senior Back End Developer with over two decades of software engineering experience and a 12-year focused track record in modern backend systems. He combines deep language diversity—Clojure, Ruby, Python, PHP—with strong infrastructure skills in AWS, CI/CD, and high-availability architectures for data-driven applications. Oliver has led engineering and infrastructure teams at organisations from the BBC and Cervest to startups, consistently shipping maintainable, test-driven systems and guiding teams through architecture and DevOps transformations. Currently building high-performance social gaming platforms with Clojure and Rust, he pairs hands-on coding with engineering leadership and a pragmatic SOA/N-tier approach. Outside of work he serves his local community in Strathard as a councilor and trust officer, reflecting an uncommon blend of technical leadership and civic commitment. That mix of long-term craftsmanship, operational rigour, and community-focused responsibility makes him adept at turning complex requirements into resilient, evolving products.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Clevelands PreparatoryB.A. Hons; Levels; A, English and American Literature; English Literature, B.A. Hons; Levels; A, English and American Literature; English Literature at University of Kent at CanterburyEnglish Language and Literature/Letters, English Language and Literature/Letters at Sedbergh School
French, English
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Github Skills (42)
toggle8
homebrew-cask7
externs7
swiftui6
clojurescript6
clojure6
php6
macos-application6
regex6
feature-toggle6
google-closure6
javascript6
toolbox6
swift5
tcp5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maleghast/toggler
Mar 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 23 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 1 month
feature-toggletoggleclojurefeature-toggle-service
Cervest/rodeo
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
A clojure client for the http://geocod.io (Geocodio) API
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
apigeocodioclojuregeocodio-api
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