// BIO
Software engineer focused on distributed systems, fault-tolerant architecture, and performance engineering. Drawn to problems at the intersection of correctness and scale.
Currently at OneSure Insurance, Stoke-on-Trent. Building Foundation, a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus system. Watching a game engine be written from scratch. Learning to fly.
// CAPABILITIES
SYSTEMS C · C++ · Rust
BACKEND PHP · Node · Python
CLOUD AWS · Kubernetes · IaC
DISTRIBUTED Event Driven · Fault Tolerant
FRONTEND Astro · Tailwind · TS
INFRA Linux · Docker · CI/CD
// AVAILABILITY
OPEN TO ENGAGEMENTS
Available for contract and permanent roles. Particularly interested in distributed systems, performance engineering, and architecture at scale. Remote-first. UK-based.
Initiate Contact// SIDE_CHANNELS
- › Computer Architecture — following Prof. Onur Mutlu's CMU/ETH lectures on DRAM, memory hierarchies, and microarchitecture
- › Game Engine Dev — 80+ episodes into Kohi, a game engine built from scratch in C with Vulkan
- › Aviation — PPL student. Nine theory exams down.
// CONTACT
hello@robertshalders.co.uk
For recruitment: please include role, stack, and whether remote is supported.