Lee Staples

Lee Staples

Staff AI Engineer

London, United Kingdom

About

Highly enthusiastic, results-orientated team player with a strong technical and analytical background. 1st class Master's degree in Mathematics and Physics backed with experience in both corporate and startup fintech and proptech companies.

Excels in planning, developing, delivering, and improving tactical, strategic, and innovative solutions using multiple programming languages across a broad range of platforms. Comfortable working in a wide range of team sizes as well as individually, both remote and office-based.

Experience in infrastructure/software engineering, data science, scientific research, and release management. Full-stack developer with a passion for agile development, secure code, and continuous development.

Experience

Rodeo

Staff AI Engineer (Fullstack)

Apr 2025 — Present

London, England, United Kingdom

  • Instrumental in building multiple AI products from the ground up: payslip analysis tools, career planning tools, job matching platforms, etc.

Nous

Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

Jul 2021 — Mar 2025

London, England, United Kingdom

  • Building a new consumer service with a social mission to liberate UK citizens from £10bn of waste, dysfunction and corporate villainy

flatfair

Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

Jan 2021 — Jun 2021

London, England, United Kingdom

  • Promoted after a year of taking on increasing responsibility
  • Technical lead of various projects, including many end-to-end customer on-boarding flows
  • Squad leader, responsible for prioritising projects, reviewing plans, critiquing designs, and scoping technical details

flatfair

Fullstack Software Engineer

Jun 2019 — Jan 2021

London, England, United Kingdom

  • Implemented asynchronous payment system to handle SCA & 3DS2
  • Expanded asynchronous serverless event-based system for emails, SMS, internal notifications, claims processing, and more
  • Introduced serverless APIs for routing 3rd party webhooks to correct environment
  • Expanded frontend skills with Vue.js and an in-house design system using React Styled Components

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Software Engineer

Aug 2016 — May 2019

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

  • Member of the high performance compute team, managing over 100,000 distributed compute cores
  • Developed the Java-based Hybrid Burst Brokerage Service, allowing seasonal customers to burst high-performance workloads into the AWS public cloud
  • Expanded skills in cloud design, cybersecurity, agile development, API standards, micro-services, and general software engineering
  • Acted as point-of-contact for new customer on-boarding and operational expert for the Hybrid Burst Brokerage Service
  • Moved into a developer experience role, owning the full SDLC for all core and middleware services running on the HPC grid
  • Lead developer of a new internally open-sourced Data Science as a Service project

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Technology Summer Analyst

Jun 2015 — Sep 2015

  • Worked within the Corporate & Investment Bank, developing an application to discover cost saving opportunities throughout the firm
  • Gained valuable knowledge in data visualisation software and scripting in Python

Education

University of Warwick

2012 — 2016

1st Class Master's Degree: Mathematics and Physics (MMathPhys)

Palmer's College

2010 — 2012

3 A-Levels (A*AB): Maths, Further Maths, Physics — 1 AS-Level (A): Computing

Gable Hall School

2005 — 2010

12 GCSEs (A*A*A*AAAABBBBC), OCR National 1st Award in IT (Distinction)

Skills & More

Languages

EnglishNative or Bilingual
RussianLimited Working
GermanLimited Working

Technical Skills

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaVue.jsReactNode.jsAI/MLLLMsLangChainLangSmithLangGraphClaudeOpenAIRAGPrompt EngineeringAI AgentsVector DatabasesPineconeCursorAWSServerlessCI/CDDockerTerraformAgileDevOpsREST APIsMicro-services

Publication

An overview of estimation theory and its applications to phase & loss in quantum enhanced sensing

Patent

HybridBurst Optimized Regulated Workload Orchestration

Get in Touch

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just having a chat.