Lee Staples

London, England, United Kingdom

• Architected the end-to-end AI platform from the ground up, including model serving, structured data extraction pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure, enabling rapid iteration on multiple AI products simultaneously
• Designed and built the core job-matching algorithm using vector embeddings and mathematical scoring models rooted in linear algebra and probability theory, powering the platform's primary user-facing feature
• Engineered LLM-powered pipelines for structured extraction from payslips and CVs, transforming unstructured documents into actionable career and compensation insights
• Shipped multiple AI products from concept to production in weeks by owning the full stack (TypeScript), from infrastructure and API design through to consumer-facing UI

London, England, United Kingdom

• Founding engineer at a bill-switching startup; built core platform systems from scratch and helped scale the product from early users through to significant consumer adoption
• Designed and built an AI-powered inbox-scanning engine that automatically identified and analysed household bills, surfacing personalised saving opportunities for users
• Led a full platform migration from Python to a TypeScript monorepo, improving developer velocity, type safety, and maintainability across the entire stack
• Delivered hundreds of consumer-facing features across the product lifecycle, spanning comparison engines, switching flows, and account management UIs
• Helped scale the platform to support the growing user base, contributing to both frontend performance and backend reliability

London, England, United Kingdom

• Promoted within a year for consistently taking on increasing ownership; stepped into a squad lead role, driving project prioritisation, architectural reviews, and design critiques
• Led delivery of multiple end-to-end customer onboarding flows that measurably improved landlord and tenant conversion rates on the deposit-free renting platform
• Provided technical leadership across the squad, scoping complex projects and mentoring engineers on best practices

London, England, United Kingdom

• Architected and shipped an asynchronous payment system supporting SCA and 3DS2 compliance, processing significant transaction volume across the platform
• Expanded the serverless event-driven architecture to handle emails, SMS, notifications, and claims processing, improving reliability and decoupling critical workflows
• Built serverless APIs to intelligently route third-party webhooks to the correct environment, eliminating a manual pain point for the engineering team
• Broadened frontend capability across the team using Vue.js and contributed to an in-house design system built with React Styled Components

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Operated within the High Performance Compute team managing 100,000+ distributed compute cores, ensuring uptime and performance for firm-critical workloads
• Pioneered the Java-based Hybrid Burst Brokerage Service, one of the first systems enabling seasonal cloud-bursting of HPC workloads into AWS — a groundbreaking capability at the firm
• Owned the full SDLC for all core and middleware services on the HPC grid after transitioning into a developer experience role, streamlining release processes and operational tooling
• Led development of an internally open-sourced Data Science as a Service platform, broadening self-service analytics access across the organisation

• Developed a cost-discovery application within the Corporate & Investment Bank, identifying firm-wide saving opportunities using Python and data visualisation tooling