Oliver Pauffley
Senior Software Engineer at Utility Warehouse
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Pauffley is a senior software engineer with seven years of professional experience building well-tested, efficient backend systems, currently contributing at Utility Warehouse. A self-taught engineer with formal math training and prior experience as a secondary school mathematics teacher, he brings strong analytical rigor to designing APIs, event-driven architectures, and data-backed services using Rust, Go, Postgres, Kafka, and gRPC. He has experience both bootstrapping new projects and improving legacy systems, applying TDD and pragmatic Linux-first tooling to improve reliability and velocity. An avid Haskell and Nix enthusiast, he often explores functional approaches and reproducible dev environments that inform his practical engineering decisions.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE Secondary Education and Teaching, PGCE Secondary Education and Teaching at University of SouthamptonBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (40)
linux10
game-programming9
nix9
docker-container9
rust8
docker8
game-development8
nixos8
game-engine8
postgresql8
open-source7
bevy7
nixpkgs7
golang6
go6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
utilitywarehouse/energy-postgres-base
Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
Base manifest for energy postgres instances.
Contributions:8 reviews, 13 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 6 months
postgresql
oliverpauffley/nixos
Sep 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 89 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 8 months
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