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Growing engineers,
Building communities that last
Senior software engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, owner of ainsley.dev (web design & dev), conference speaker, mentor and open-source contributor. Passionate about writing well-crafted Go, mentoring the next generation and building communities where engineers thrive.
Bio

Hi, I'm Ainsley
I've always been a bit of a geek at heart. It all started off with a pair of DJ decks as a kid which led me to a Music Technology degree, and somewhere along the way turned into a career building software. I can truly say that I love what I do and I'm always excited about all things tech.
Engineering
Most of my time is spent writing Go at Just Eat Takeaway.com, leading platform architecture across teams and building tools and services that last.
Advocating
Giving back matters to me, whether that's speaking at conferences, contributing to open source or contributing to the Just Eat Go Guild to raise engineering standards across teams.
Mentoring
I've always loved investing in people and watching them grow through one-to-ones, code reviews and working on soft skills to help them thrive in their career.
Media

GopherCon UK 2025
How Just Eat uses tooling to deploy Go micro-services in minutes. This talk explores how Go Kit helps engineers to deploy complex event-driven workflows with ease.

London Gophers
Learn how Just Eat deploys Go microservices with well crafted tooling. Making sophisticated event-driven workflows faster to ship, easier to maintain & easier to run.

Go Guild - Sept 2024
Building Open Source Go Projects in Public with MelkeyDev. Learn how popular Go author, Melkey built go-blueprint live on twitch; with a community round up as always.

JET Tech Fest
A career change is daunting. Moving from hospitality into the tech industry was an uphill battle, but it led me to a field I genuinely love. If you’re trying to break into a new industry, this story may resonate.
Competencies
Languages & Frameworks
- Go
- PHP
- TypeScript
- SCSS & CSS
Leadership
- Team Development
- Performance Coaching
- Mentorship
- Strategic Planning
Methodologies
- Event Based Architecture
- Software
- Web Design
- Agile
Datastores
- Dynamo
- SQL, Postgres & Mongo
- Redis
- Prometheus
Cloud
- AWS & GCP
- Lambda, SFN & SQS
- Cloudwatch
- Terraform
Tools
- gRPC
- Docker
- Linux
- Elastic
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